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Nursery at Bagshot, in the early part of 1861, through his 

 friend, Mr. Kobert Fortune, who discovered it .near Yeddo, 

 in Japan. It has been named in compliment to Mr. John 

 Standish, who has been the means, of introducing and dis- 

 seminating so many beautiful and valuable Eastern plants 

 throughout Europe and America. It is quite hardy and- 

 very distinct. 



No. 6. Thuja Tatarioa, Loddiges, the Tartarian Arbor- Vitse. 



Syn. Thuja Tatarica Wareana, Hort. 

 „ Sibirica, Linneeus. 

 „ „ compacta, Knight 



,, „ Wareana, Hort. 



„ Occidentalis Wareana, Knight. 

 „ Wareana, Hort. 

 „ pyramidalis, Tenore. 

 „ Australis, Hort. 



„ Orientalis Tatarica, Lawson. 

 Biota Tatarica, Loudon. 

 ,, „ Wareana, Hort. 



„ Wareana, Hort. 



„ pyramidalis, Carrihre. 



„ Orieiitalis Tatarica, Endlicher. 



Leaves in opposite alternate pairs, closely imbricated in four 

 rows, bluntly oval, thick at the points, somewhat flattened, and 

 furnished with a transparent gland on the back. Branches 

 thickly set on the main stem, somewhat horizontal, rather flat, 

 dense, compact, fan-shaped, and thickly placed in two horizon- 

 tal rows along the lesser spray. Cones identical with those of 

 the American Arbor- Vitse. 



The Tartarian, or, as it is sometimes called, the Siberian 

 Arbor- Vitse, has been misplaced in the Genus Biota by Mr. 

 Loudon and nearly all modern writers, although it strictly 

 belbngs to the Genus Thuja, as now defined, it ha.ving cones 

 exactly similar to those of the" American Arbor- Vitaj, with 



