174 CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 
of damp and soil that it requires. In its branching 
it seems to show its independence of character more 
than anything. It is said to shed its branchlets in 
fan-shaped pieces. The situation of the green tufts 
of leaved branchlets, upon the top of elongated twigs 
curling upwards bared and brown, looks peculiar. 
Hold up by hand a branchlet and it looks like some 
iminiature-shapen Stone Pine, or even a toy repre- 
sentative of the top. ramification arrangement of a 
clean-boled Scots Pine. 
A juvenile form, called either Leptoclada or Eri- 
coides, has raised questions as to whether it- belongs 
to the true fold of the Thyoides. 
It, like the Thyoides, is spoken of as ezanactal 
There i is one planted here some 800 ft. above sea-level, 
and though it grows slowly it grows.steadily. It 
reminds one of a miniature, reduced four dimensions, 
Cryptomeria Elegans, but the branchlets turn -red 
while the Cryptomeria retains its yellow-green colour. 
(SuB-pivision EU-THUYA, oF THE SUB-TRIBE 
THUYINZ, anv oF THE TRIBE CUPRESSINEZ) 
TuHuyas, OR ARBOR VITZ,— 
The true and only friend is He, 
Who, like the arbor vite tree, 
Will bear our image on his heart. 
Sir .W, Jones. 
When the foliage part of the question comes into 
the region of discussion, it is pretty well agreed that 
the Thuyas and the flat-leaved, small-coned Cypresses 
(Chamecyparis) are more or less at one. In-.both 
instances the branchlet systems are in one plane. 
It is on the cone question that they come to logger-. 
heads, and the rift in the lute here is, that while the 
scales of the cones of the Thuya are imbricated— 
