Crossword-Solution: THUYAS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Yews from many different countries, junipers of various kinds, pines, firs, spruces, cypresses of countless varieties, many thuyas, beside euonymus, holly, datura, India rubber, aralias, the beautiful nandina domestica, a most lovely foliage massed in the corners of the west side of the Aisle of the Rising Sun.

The _Thuites_ were true _Thuyas_, evergreen trees of the present epoch, with compressed branches, small imbricated and serrated leaves, somewhat resembling those of the Cypress, but distinguished by many points of special organisation.

Alongside the birch, the walnut, the oak, the elm, and the alder, rise lofty palm-trees, of species now extinct, such as _Flabellaria_ and _Palmacites_; with many evergreen trees (Conifers), for the most part belonging to genera still existing, as the _firs_, the _pines_, the _yews_, the _cypresses_, the _junipers_, and the _thuyas_ or tree of life.

Brongniart enumerates forty-one different species, which, for the most part, remind us of living forms with which we are familiar--of Pines, Cypresses, Thuyas, Junipers, Firs, Yews, and Ephedra.