184 CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 
situations could be bettered for the beautiful by 
making judicious use of its stately and formal shape. 
What the Lombardy Poplar has accomplished for 
the Plains of Lombardy as seen from Milan Cathedral, 
what it has done to beautify our rich, low-lying 
valleys of England, so equally can the well-placed 
Libocedrus play an ornament réle in many places of 
our grounds and gardens. 
Of the Libocedrus group which appears in our own 
Table, when we come to call the muster-roll and 
reckon the rarities as absentees, the task of identifying 
becomes lightened. Of the eight mentioned, three 
are not introduced, three are very rare, and the 
Chilensis only seems to flourish under exceptional 
climatic conditions. This leaves us, then, only more 
or less confronted with the botanical details of one 
specimen, the Libocedrus Decurrens, to contend with. 
The long length of their leaves, appressed to the stem, 
the vertical growth of their branches, the attenuated 
lengthy appearance of the tree as a whole, their 
unlike-any-other terminal cones, render them easy 
of recognition. Should you chance on a rarity of 
their race—and we think it would only be on the 
rarest of rare occasions—the differences alluded to in. 
the Table should not present insuperable difficulties 
to. those students who have gone far enough in their 
observational career to know that a Libocedrus is a 
Libocedrus. We should here call attention to the 
fact that the Libocedri break away from the Thuya 
conditions in two points: (1) A greater number of 
stamens in the male flower. (2) And secondly, 
which is the more easily apprehended of the two, 
in the matter of cone construction. Whereas the 
scales of the true Thuya are more or less of equal 
size and overlap each other, the scales of the cones 
of the Libocedri are of unequal size, and do not over- 
lap, but are united by the margins only. To it 
