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remarkable on account of most of the leaves being linear and 
spreading, showing a tendency to develop two kinds of leaves in 
this genus, a common occurrence in Junipers. The variegated 
varieties have little to recommend them, though that called 
Verveneadne is rather more distinct than some of them. 
13. THUJOPSIS. 
Evergreen shrubs or trees with scale-like sickle-shaped ap- 
pressed imbricate leaves, moncecious flowers, and globular cones. 
Scales of the fruit woody, overlapping, with about 5 winged 
seeds at the base of each. A Japanese genus of recent intro- 
duction, including some of the most curious and beautiful 
members of this order. The name is from Thuja and. dys, 
resemblance. For Th. boredlis, see Cupréssus Nutkaénsis. 
1. Th. dolabrata.—This was the first species introduced, and 
as a small shrub it stands almost unrivalled in the rich verdure 
of its glossy hatchet-shaped leaves and peculiar growth. In 
Japan it is said to form a most splendid tree of large size, and 
from its apparent hardiness we may look for it to do well with 
us, though it is not of very rapid growth. The leaves are 
somewhat loosely imbricated and more or less silvery on the 
under surface or shady side. But it is perhaps the habit of 
this plant that constitutes its most striking feature. The main 
branches are few and rather loose and spreading, with numerous 
compressed pendulous branchlets, and it does not readily forin 
a distinct leader, or rather the leader does not appear distinctly 
above the lateral branches. It appears to prefer a moist cool 
soil. There is a variety in which the foliage is prettily 
variegated with pale yellow, and another, called nana, of very 
dwarf habit. 
2. Th. letevirens.—A small shrub about 4 or 5 feet high, 
with slender foliage resembling that of a Lycopod. It is 
described as an exquisitely beautiful hardy shrub, but it is 
still very rare in this country except as a very small plant. 
3. Th. Standishii.—This approaches Th. dolabrata, and may 
be nothing more than a distinct variety of that species. The 
branches are more pendulous in this, and the foliage smaller, 
glaucous, not silvery beneath. 
‘ hese are probably garden varieties of Th. dolabrata, but 
they are sufficiently distinct to be desirable. 
