6. THUIA Camer, I586. 
bua of Homerus [Odyss. 5,60.] and Theophrastus 
[ Hist. 5: 5.] zs held to be Callttris quadrivalvis 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 moneecious: 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. 
* Tenis quidem in focis magnus ardeb 
vero odor 
cedrique fissilis thyaeque per insulam redolebat, 
ardentium : ipsa vero intus cantillans voce pulcra, 
telam obiens, aureo radeo tenebat. 
at, procul 
ffomeri 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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