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NEE’S ARBOR VITjE. 
western shores of N. America at Nootka Sound, where it 
was collected by Menzies. It is described by Loudon as 
a very branching, spreading, light-green tree, the branches 
being crowded and covered with a reddish-brown bark ; 
branchlets dense, often divided, pectinate, compressed. 
The leaves are rhomboid-ovate, acute, closely adpressed, 
imbricated in 4 rows, crowded together between the nodes, 
glabrous, entire, shining, and tubercled in the middle. The 
cones are solitary and scattered, oblong and nutant ; the 
scales elliptic, obtuse, flat, obsoletely furrowed. The seeds 
compressed, winged all round, obcordate-oblong, and emar- 
ginate at the summit. Scarcely distinct from T. occi- 
dentalism of which Loudon imagines it to be a mere variety. 
