330 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
Arbor vitas the pistil and stamen are in separate flowers on ‘the 
same tree ; the male catkins are terminal and solitary; the pollen of 
each flower is included in four cases attached to the inner face of 
the scale towards the base. They are trees or shrubs, natives of Asia, 
Africa, and America. 
The Cypress very much resembles the Thujas; they are essentially 
distinguished from them by their leaves being mere:scales, their cones 
_ Fig. 273.—Group of Cypress Trees. 
mere bracts, by the seeds being small, angular, and several to ® 
bract, and by the number of seeds which are pressed into the base 
of each scale. In the Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) e 
branches leave the parent stem at a very acute angle, giving o- 
tree its very peculiar physiognomy. ok 
The common Juniper (Juniperus communis) is a native shrub, 
with long, narrow, sharp-pointed leaves, in verticulates of 
palutous, rigid, and almost prickly edged: it is mondcious- 
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