176 CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 
“‘aromatic’’ in botanical writings generally refers to 
what is fragrant, and sometimes to what seems to 
be doubtfully fragrant; whereas ‘‘rank” expresses 
forcibly that our perceptions are not to expect any 
pleasant impressions therefrom,—and these are 
descriptive adjectives that appear frequently upon 
the pages of standard authorities. 
In the specimens where the juvenile form of leaf is 
retained, and before the day when scientists had 
proved that they were one and the same, only in 
youthful guise, they were named Retinospora. To- 
day a commonly planted tree is more often spoken 
of as the Retinospora Squarrosa, whereas, if you give 
it its full and real title, it should read Cupressus 
Pisifera var. Squarrosa. Several of the Thuyas—the 
Orientalis, e.g.—masquerade in this juvenile attire. 
The Occidentalis and Orientalis are particularly 
inclined to this little habit. 
The Orientalis, or Biota, to which we refer later on, 
like the Cupr. Lawsoniana, is of a very polymor- 
phous habit. 
The word “ Thuya’’is an old Greek word, @via, con- 
nected with an old Greek verb (6d) that expressed 
action in the direction of burnt sacrifices and incense, 
and became thus associated with the more fragrant 
woods employed in places of worship. 
Our old schoolboy recourse to the meanings of these 
mysterious Greek-lettered words, Liddell and Scott, 
tells us that it was a name applied to an African tree 
with sweet-smelling wood, and that its Latin synonym 
was cedrus; whether it was Cedar, an African Arbor 
Vite (Callitris Quadrivalvis) was a matter in dispute. 
But these unde derivatur excursions into the half- 
buried past afford us more recreation than enlighten- 
ment upon the problems of the present day. 
The Thuyas of to-day are divided into three 
sections : (i) the Eu-thuya, comprising three species 
