6. THUIA Camer, [586. 
6ua of Homerus [Odyss. 5,60.] and Theophrastus 
[ Hist. 5: 5.] zs held to be Callttris gquadrivalvis Vent. 
(Thuja articulata Vahl.).* 
Shrubs or trees with spreading or ascending branches 
and compressed branchlets. Leaves of two kinds, awl- 
shaped, or minute, blunt, appressed, 4-ranked. Flow- 
ers moncecious: the staminate in subglobose or ovoid 
aments : the pistillate borne on lateral branchlets, in soli- 
tary and terminal aments; scales 6-8, 4-ranked. Ovules 
commonly 2 in the axils of the basifixed scales; the latter 
oval or oval-oblong. Fruit maturing the same season. 
Seed oblong, winged. 
* Tgnis quidem in focis magnu 
vero odor 
cedrique fissilis thyaeque per insulam redolebat, 
ardentium : ipsa vero intus cantillans voce pulcra, 
telam obiens, aureo radeo tenebat. 
e e ® e e ° e ° 
s ardebat, procul 
flomert Carm. Odyss. 5, 60. 
Thyum, quam alii thyam appellant, circa Ammonis 
fanum et in Cyrenaica nascitur, forma cupresso simile, 
ramulis, foliis, trunco, fructuque: vel quasi silvestris 
cupressus est. Copiosa etiam ubi nunc oppidum est: 
et ex eo memorant contignationes quasdam vetustissimas 
fuisse, lignum enim nunquam putredinem sentit et radix 
valde crispa, e qua opera pretiosissima fiunt.. . . . 
Lheophrasti Opera 5, 3, 7. 
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