102 SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUM. 



Thuja dumosa, Gordon, the Bush Arbor-Vitae. 

 Syn. Thuja Occidentalis dumosa, Hort. 

 „ „ „ nana, Hort. 



„ ,, minor, Wrn. Paul. 



„ „ nana, Hort. 



„ ,, plicata Llaveana, Hort. 



), „ „ dumosa, Hort. 



„ „ Antarctica, Hort. 



A spreading little bush, densely clothed with numerous short, 

 tufted, flat, fan-shaped branches, growing in all directions, and 

 thickly set with short, forked, two-edged branchlets, of a glossy 

 light-green above, but much paler below, and furnished on the 

 back-rib with an elevated transparent gland. 



This kind forms a dense, dwarf, little, confused bush, seldom 

 growing more than two or three feet high, somewhat resembling 

 in its branchlets the Nootka Sound Arbor- Vitse (Thuja plicata), 

 but of a much lighter colour. 



It is said to be found in the Antarctic regions, and is qtiite 

 hardy. 



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 Thuja gigantea, Nuttall, the Giant Arbor- Vitse. 

 Syn. Libocedrus Craigiana, Low. 

 „ ,, gigantea. Low. 



„ ,, „ glauca, Lawson. 



„ Thuja Nuttalliana, Douglas. 

 The Indians on the N. W. coast of America call this tree 

 " Noo-wy-as" (Cedar), and, according to Sir E. Belcher (in his 

 voyage round the world), its timber is very fine grained, bright 

 yellow, very valuable, and much used at the Russian settlement 

 of Sitcha for building purposes ; and that the natives at 

 Nootka Sound manufacture their cloaks of its inner bark, which 

 turns the rain, is very pliable and soft, and is in use for mats, 

 sails, ropes, clothing, &c. ; the bark, which is rather thin, is 

 also used in covering the roofs of houses and other buildings. 



This kind is quite hardy, and very distinct from Thuja Men- 

 siesii, a kind misnamed " Lobbii" by the Veitches. 



