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brown. Northern China and Korea; in Japan, western China and central 

 Asia only cultivated. — Introduced to Europe before 1735. Its hardiest forms 

 are hardy as far north as Massachusetts; the typical form is a graceful pyram- 

 idal tree with slender ascending branches and hardier than most of the 

 garden types which are much planted for ornament in the Southern States. 



Forms distinguished by color: Var. aurea, Dauvesse. Golden Oriental 

 A. Low, compact, globose shrub, golden-yellow in spring, changing to bright 

 green. Var. conspicua, Berckmans (var. aurea conspicua, Hort.). Gold- 

 spine A. More erect, the intense golden foliage partially suffused with green. 

 Var. beverleyensis, Rehd. {Thuja hevcrleycnsis, Hort.). A columnar form 

 with the tips of the branchlets golden-yellow. Var. elegantissima, Gord. 

 Yellow Coluihn A. Of low columnar habit, bright yellow in spring, yel- 

 lowish-green afterward. Var. semperaiorescens, Nichols. Evergolden A. 

 Dwarf, globose; the golden hue of the foliage remains throughout the whole 

 year. 



Forms distinguished by habit: Var. stricta, Loud. (7". fTjramidalis, Ten. 

 Biota orientalis var. pyramidalis, Endl.). Oriental Pyramidal A. Of 

 pyramidal habit, with bright green foliage; one of the tallest and hardiest 

 varieties. Var. flagellifonnis, Jacq. (var. pendula. Mast. Biota orientalis 

 var. pendula. Pari. B. o. var. filiformis,Ilenk. & Hochst. T. pcndula. Lamb. 

 T. filiformis, Lindl.). Weeping Oriental A. Branches pendulous, thread- 

 like, sparingly ramified, and with the leaves wide apart and acuminate. Var. 

 funiculata, Nichols., and var, intermedia, Carr., are forms intermediate 

 between this variety and the juvenile form; their branchlets are pendent and 

 the leaves partly scale-like and partly acicular. Var. Sieboldii, Endl. (var. 

 japonica, Sieb. var. 7iana, Carr. var. Ziiccariniana, Veitch. var. compacta, 

 Beiss.). Siebold A. Globose, compact, low form, bright green. 



Juvenile forms : Var. meldensis, Mast. Of columnar, pyramidal, somewhat 

 irregular growth: leaves acicular, bluish-green, sometimes passing into the 

 normal form. Intermediate between the var. decussata and the type. Var. 

 decussata, Mast. {Biota o. var. decussata, Beiss. & Hochst. Retinospora 

 juniperoides, Carr. Chamcecyparis decussata, Hort.). Dwarf globose form: 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, spreading, stiff, acute, bluish-green. A juvenile 

 form. 



7. FITZROYA, Hook. f. FITZROYA 



Evergreen tree; ramification of branclilets irregular; branclilets angled: 

 leaves ternate, decurrent, their free part spreading: flowers dioecious; stami- 

 nate flowers cylindric, solitary, axillary, consisting of 15-24 stamens in 

 ternate whorls: cone small, globose, with 3 ternate whorls of valvate scales, 

 the lower whorl small and sterile, slightly imbricate, the middle whorl sterile 

 or fertile and the upper one fertile; each fertile scale with a prominent com- 



