THE DECIDUOUS CYPRESS 209 
corded a nearer affinity with the Sequoias of North 
America and the Cryptomerias of Japan, to which 
subject we have made further allusion under the 
heading of Cryptomeria. 
THe Decrpuous Cypress (Taxopium  Dis- 
TICHUM).— 
I hate those trees that never lose their foliage. 
They seem to have no sympathy with nature ; 
Winter and summer are alike to them. 
W. S.. Lanpor, 
The Deciduous Cypress is' the one recusant repre- 
sentative of the Taxodinean fold, in that it does not 
conform to the established custom in force among 
its other fellow tribesmen, of submitting to evergreen 
practices. Were the tree gifted with a power to 
understand, we can imagine with what satisfaction 
it would hail the one-sided bitterness contained in 
the words of the above-quoted poet, and spoken in 
condemnation of undeciduous ways. 
As the Cupr. Lusitanica is spoken of as the Cedar 
of Goa—whereas, in point of fact, it happens neither 
to be a Cedar nor to come originally from Goa—so 
also on the same principle, or want of principle, our 
tree in question has been named and surnamed by 
such descriptions as Taxodium and Cypress. 
The word “taxodium” means like a Yew, and 
is derived from rd£os (the Yew) and ¢/éos (shape or 
form). Against the employment of the word Dis- 
tichum, although it may not be very illuminating 
we will not exercise our national privilege of grumb- 
ling. It is a word derived from the Greek word 
Sicrtyos, Which means two-rowed, and was a word 
once applied to a measure of verse, and has since 
been appropriated by the botanical world to signify 
leaves arranged in two ranks. As the arrangement 
