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18 TREES AND SHRUBS 
flattened, pointed, and more or less spreading.”’ In other respects the genus 
essentially resembles the Pines, Firs, etc. 
Araucaria imbricata, Pavon. CHILI PINE. (Araucaria Chilensis, Mirbel ; 
Abies Araucaria, Potret; Pinus Araucaria, Molina. There are, besides, other 
synonymes, the enumeration of which would be out of place here.) Tree from 
Southern Chili, growing but a little below the snow-line. In Chili it grows 
150 feet high. The nuts it produces are over an inch long, and they furnish 
to the Indians of the region an inexhaustible supply of food. It is even pre- 
dicted that in England (where it is hardy) it will in time prove of as much 
value as a source of food as the Spanish chestnut is in Spain. Hardy in the 
Southern United States, but its hardiness here is very doubtful. The other 
species of the genus are absolutely tender with us. 
Biota. Differs from the Arbor Vite, Thuja (which see), mainly in having 
no wings to the seeds. There are but two species, which, however, have pro- 
duced a great number of varieties. 
Biota orientalis, Doz. CHINESE ARBOR VITA. (7huja orientalis, Lin- 
neus,; Cupressus Thuja.) From China and Japan, where it grows 20 feet 
high. Not so desirable for planting here as our own Arbor Vite. The fol- 
lowing are its varieties : 
Antarctica, ——-? * argentea, //ort.,; has silvery-white variegated 
branchlets. * arthrotaxoides, /or¢.,; is a close dwarf shrub with much- 
contorted branchlets. aurea, /fovt.; is the DWARF GOLDEN ARBOR VITA, 
a globular, dense shrub, never more than 5 feet high, with branchlets in winter 
yellow or yellowish green. elegantissima, o//isson ; has the tips of all the 
branches golden yellow in autumn. Gordon calls it the finest of all the varie- 
ties. * falcata, Lindley; grows 15 feet high in Japan, where it is used to 
form hedges. ‘Takes its name from the falcate or sickle-shaped recurved scales 
to the cones. This same variety has also produced a dwarf form. filiformis, 
? is on the list of Parsons & Sons, as furnished to the Park; probably a 
form of pendula. * funiculata, Hort.,; has very slender simple branchlets, 
which are quite green, and which have small, sharp-pointed leaves. glauca, 

_ Pince ; this plant appears as if dusted with meal or with silver, from the glau- 
cous powder on the leaves and branchlets. gracilis, Carriere; includes the 
variety ‘“ /renelozdes of the Belgian gardens.” It is a slender, erect, compact 
form, with small, sharp foliage, and comes from Northern India. intermedia, 
——?; catalogue of Hoopes Bro. & Thomas gives this as furnished the Park. 
Meldensis, Lawson; resembles a red cedar when young, and is probably a 
hybrid. * monstrosa, Carriere; has few, short, twisted branches, and thick, 
blunt-pointed leaves. Nepalensis; is placed by Gordon under graci/is (see 
above). * Pekinensis, Gordon; a large tree found near Pekin. pyra- 
midalis, Zxd/icher; is the TALL CHINESE ARBOR VIT&; tall tree, “ re- 
sembling the upright cypress in shape.” semperaurescens, Lemoine; keeps 
its golden color the year through. * Sieboldii, Z7d/icher ; known to the 
Chinese as Peacock’s Tail, from its close fan-like branchlets and compact gen- 
eral outline. ‘Cultivated in pots by the Chinese.” triangularis, //or7. ; is a 
dwarf variety, with the branches arranged in a triangular instead of a fan- 
shaped manner. variegata, Zvd/icher,; has the branchlets variegated with 
gold and green. Zuccariniana, //ort. ; is a dwarf of globular outline, deep 
green color, and said “ to come true from seed.” 
Biota pendula, Zndlicher. THE WEEPING ARBOR VITA. (Biota orten- 
talis pendula, Parlatore,; Cupressus pendula, Thunberg,; Thuja pendula, 

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