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Hahltat. — Southern Chili ; common on the cool slopes of the lower 

 Cordilleras of the Andes, near Castillo de Tvun-Leuvii, from latitude 

 34° S. to Yaldivia, the volcanic mountains of Antuco, as also the 

 lagunes of Rauco. 



Introduced in 1847 by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., of Clapton 

 {Gardeners^ Chronicle, 1850, p. 439). 



L. deeurrens, Torr. PI. Fremont, 7, t. 3. Thuija gigantea, Carr. 

 Conif. 112. Thuya Craigiana, Murray in Rep. Oreg. Exped. 2, t. 5. 

 Libocedrus Craigiana, Laws. ex. Gord. Pinet. suppl. 103. Heyderia 

 deeurrens, C. Koch, Dendr. ii. 179. Calocedrus calif arnica, Kurz. 



North fork of the Santian River, Oregon, south along the western 

 slopes of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains between 3,000 

 and 8,500 feet elevation, and through the California coast ranges to 

 the San Bernardino and Cayumaca Mountains. 



Introduced into Europe in 1854. 



A large tree, 100-150 feet in height, with a trunk 4-8 feet in 

 diameter ; slopes and valleys ; common. Wood light, soft, not 

 strong, brittle, close-grained, compact, very durable in contact with 

 the soil ; bands of small summer cells thin, dark-coloured, con- 

 spicuous ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; the thin sapwood 

 nearly white; specific gravity, 0'4017 ; ash, 0*08 ; largely used for 

 fencing and in the construction of water-flumes, and for interior 

 finish, furniture, laths, shingles, &c. ; often injured by a species of 

 dry rot (Dxdalia vorax, Harkness in Facific Rural Press, Jan. 25, 

 1879, f. 1, 2), rendering it unfit for lumber (Ch. S. Sargent). 



In some Danish gardens plants of L. deeurrens, 30 years old, are 

 about 30 feet high. One specimen, lately measured, has attained a 

 height of 20 feet and a girth of 2 feet. It was planted in 1870. 



The plant is often introduced under the wrong name of Thuya 

 gigantea, which it still retains in foreign nurseries. It is hardy here. 

 In the winter of 1890-91 only a few plants sufi"ered a little. From 

 Berlin was reported in the GartenfMva that not one plant was living 

 in nurseries, &c. Our climate is milder in Denmark. 



L. d. compacta, hort. A variety not growing so tall as the 

 species, and much more branched. 



L. d. glauca, hort. Tliuya deeurrens glauca, hort. A very nice 

 bluish variety. 



L. Doniana, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 43 ; Lindl. and Gord. 

 Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 205 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 15 ; Carr. Man. des 

 PI. iv. 320 ; Tr. G^n. Conif. 85, and Rev. Hort. 1866, 230 ; Gord. 

 Pinet. 132. Dacrydium plumosum, Don in Lamb. Pin. ed. 2, append. 

 143. Thuya Doniana, Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. i. 571, t. 18, and 

 Flor. New. Zeal. 231, 232. 



Habitat.. — New Zealand, northern island ; also on the mountain 

 slopes in the neighbourhood of Nelson, at 6,000 feet elevation. 



