208 TAXODINEZ AND ARAUCARINEZ 
was introduced in 1857, and the few places where it 
has made any show seem to be the warmer and more 
humid parts of the country, in Cornwall, in Ireland, 
especially at such particularly favoured places as 
Castlewelan, County Down (Earl Annesley), where it 
has enjoyed all the advantages of care, culture, and 
climate. Its name is derived from the Greek words 
aOpoos (crowded) and rdfis (arrangement). It is a 
native of Tasmania and a native of no other place. It 
once, existed, or something very like it, so geological 
research and deposits assert, in the Eocene period in 
Great Britain. All we can say, in its return journey 
back, after many million years, to its once native 
habitat among us, it seems signally to have failed 
to retouch the Happy Isles. 
There are three of these trees, and all to be met 
with on only the most infrequent of occasions. The 
A. Cupressoides, with its smaller cones, with its 
closely appressed leaves, has for all the world the 
character of the leaf-attached Cypress, from which 
it takes its descriptive second title. 
Then there is the A. Laxifolia, of an intermediate 
resemblance, as to size of cone and length of leaf, 
between the other two. Possibly a hybrid origin 
may be responsible for this appearance. 
They are generally spoken of as Cypress Trees, but 
the A. Selaginoides, with its much thicker incurved 
leaves, rather calls to mind some of those Araucarias 
that we can in England only see in the Temperate 
House at Kew. I refer to the A. Cunninghamia, the 
Queensland Moreton Bay Pine, and perhaps others 
labelled Rulei and Goldieana, trees that are strangers 
in our land, but that look to the amateur observer 
as showing a suspicious leaf affinity to the trees of 
our subject in question. In point of fact, it is their 
cone differences which forbid the banns of Arau- 
carinian relationship. By authorities they are ac- 
