96 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
SECTION SECOND. 
THE CYPRESS TRIBH. 
The plants which belong to this section have not their fruit 
in a true cone, but ina globular or irregular head, consisting 
of a small number of scales, sometimes united into a sort of 
berry. The section includes the Arbor Vite, the Juniper, the 
Red and the White Cedar, the Cypress, and the exotic genus 
Callitris. Most of the section are natives of warmer climates. 
Those which belong to New England are evergreen, but scarcely 
resinous. They may be propagated by layers or cuttings, but 
more readily by seeds, which generally lie in the ground a year. 
The young plants are to be treated like the pines. 
I. 5, Arson Virz. Cerpar. Thuya L. 
The name of this genus is derived from a Greek word (uw) sig- 
nifying to sacrifice, it having been used, from the agreeable odor 
of the wood, in sacrificial offerings. The thuyas are narrow, 
pyramidal, evergreen trees or shrubs of Asia, Africa, and North 
America. 'The cones are ovoid, of a few scales, of which the 
two exterior are shortened and boat-shaped. 
Sp. 1. Tue American Arzor Vita. Thuya occidentalis. L. 
Figured by Michaux ; Sylva, HI, Plate 156. 
The tree, flower and fruit, by Loudon; Arboretum, VIII, Plate 302. 
This is a rare inhabitant of Massachusetts. In favorable 
situations, it is sometimes, according to Michaux, a tree of 
forty or fifty feet in height, with a trunk ten feet in circumfer- 
ence. But usually itis not more than ten or fifteen inches in 
diameter at five feet from the ground. The trunk is rarely 
straight, and is often swollen in large ridges above the principal 
roots. “ The bark is slightly furrowed, smooth to the touch, 
and very white when the tree stands exposed. The wood is 
reddish, somewhat odorous, very light, soft, and fine-grained. 
In the northern part of the United States and in Canada, it 
holds the first place for durability. From the shape of the 
