2to TAXODINEA AND ARAUCARINEA! 
of the leaves of a Yew is two-rowed, so is the dis- 
position of the leaves upon the Deciduous Cypress ; 
and, for the matter of that, upon a good many other 
trees besides them. There the likeness to the Yew 
begins, and there it ends. Other points, even of 
remotest resemblance, as far as impressionistic ap- 
pearance is coricerned, do not exist. No one within 
the memory of man, even with a head the most 
impregnable to teaching, or an eye the most unper- 
fected for taking observation, could have: ever 
mistaken the one for the other, or ever did. The 
deciduous, light, feathery leaf of the one, with its 
indescribable spring colouring of its own particular 
iridescent shade of hue, and, on the other hand, the 
Yew with its almost precisely different—as poles 
asunder—habits, and its murky, dark green, ever- 
green ways, both tell their stories of life with un- 
mistakable meaning. What the omnipotent name- 
givers could have been thinking about when they 
dispensed this Latin prescription of name, unless it 
were for an express purpose of mystifying the mind 
of more uninstructed man, we cannot think. An 
unsophisticated Welshman might be pardonably 
excused if he expressed himself on the subject in 
customary idiom. In goodness’ name, indeed, we 
do wonder and for what ! 
Since the days of Montezuma and by historians of 
those times it has gone by the name of Cypress 
(Linnzus named it Cupressus: Disticha), and in spite 
of the fact that for some occult unorthodoxies it has 
been dismissed the ranks, the old description 
Cypress still clings, and the tree is still traded with 
under its name, notwithstanding the fact that, by 
such action, the fair name of the exclusive family 
circle of the Cupressinez, from which it has been 
summarily ejected, may be irretrievably com- 
promised. 
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