SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUM. 



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Biota Orientalis monstrosa, Carrier e, the Monstrous Chinese 



Arbor- Vitse. 

 Syn. Thuja monstrosa, Hort. 

 „ J, Sibirica monstrosa. Knight. 

 This variety is remarkable on account of its short gross 

 branchlets, which are few in number, much contorted, and 

 frequently four-sided, from the thickened obtuse-ovate (rarely 

 acute) leaves. 



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 Biota pendula, Endlicher, the Weeping Arbor- Vitse. 

 Syn. Thuja intermedia, French Gardens. 

 „ Biota pendula intermedia, Hort. 

 ,, „ „ recurvata, Hort. 



The Japanese names for this kind are " Ito-suga^' (the cord- 

 branched evergreen), and " Fi-moro Hiba" (the slender or 

 drooping tree of life). The Chinese call it " Hi-no-ki" (the 

 cord-branched or slender-formed shrub). 



Gen. CEDEUS, Loudon, the True Cedars. 



The word Cedar (Kedros of the Greeks) was not restricted 

 by the ancients to the Cedar of Lebanon, but probably derived 

 from the Arabic " Kedr,^^ worth or value, or its derivative 

 '" Kedrat," strength or power, in allusion to the value of the 

 wood. The Hebrew and Arabic names for the Cedar being 

 " Araz^' or " Arz," and that of the Romans " Arar," all from 

 the Arabic root " Araza ;" " He was firm and stable, with roots 

 deeply fixed in the ground" {Golius'). Other writers derive the 

 name from " Kaio," to burn, and " drio," to sweat or distil, a 

 kind of incense being obtained from the split wood, and burnt 

 as a substitute for it in the East ; Pliny also describes the 

 process of making " Cedria," from the cedar-wood, by distilla- 

 tion, and afiSrms its great value as a remedy for tooth-ache, for 

 which cure our modern creosote is therefore but an old remedy 

 revived. Again, others derive the name from Cedron, a brook 



