168 CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 
pendulous habit, and is spoken of as the most orna- 
mental of all Asiatic Conifers. 
The Lusitanica, in Group A, by reason of its 
striking colour and its vivid-hued cones, does not 
constitute such a puzzle to the identifier as many 
others. Its herbaceous branchlets are less crowded 
and farther apart than most of the Cypresses. It 
is, somewhat on the lucus a non lucendo principle, 
familiarly called the Cedar of Goa. As a matter of 
historic and endemic fact, it is not a Cedar and it 
did not come from Goa. It must have been named 
thus in the same spirit of perversity that described 
a Crab as a little red fish that walked backwards, in 
spite of the natural history incontrovertible fact 
that it happened to be a little blue crustacean that 
moved sideways. It would be nearing stricter truth 
to allege that the Portuguese had it from Mexico, 
and that the people of Goa (India) were indebted to 
the Portuguese for plentifully planting it among them. 
The ARIZONICA, its more northern representative, 
can be recognised by its display of little white specks 
on the leaves, and which are explained as exudations 
of resin from the circular pits. The Lusitanica does 
not manifest these displays, and so one can be known 
from the other. 
There is another more compact shaped, recently 
discovered, Arizonica Cypress, called the Smooth 
Cypress (C. GLABRA). It is described as a tree from 
25 to 30 ft. high, with thin, smooth, dark-purple, or 
red bark, bright blue-green glaucous foliage, and 
small spherical cones (vide U.S.A. Dep. of Agriculture 
Bulletin, No. 207, July 1915). Seeds are being tried 
here, and possibly many other places in England. 
Perhaps some day hence, when Father Time has taken 
extended toll, and more waters have flowed under 
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