Vil 
TAXACEA 
(OF THE NATURAL ORDER CONIFER, or THE 
FAMILY TAXACEY, oF THE TRIBES (1) SALIS- 
BURINEZ, anp (2) TAXINE) . 
For never knew that swarthy grove 
The verdant hue that fairies love. ; 
Sir W. Scort. 
To dissociate at a glance all these long-leaved sable 
kinsmen of our well-known Yew may, owing to the 
rarity of their presence and the still greater rarity 
of the presence of any fruit upon them, be regarded 
as a task of no mean difficulty, but it is a task that 
pales into insignificance before an attempt to master 
all the Taxad terms in use—Taxacex, Taxinee, 
Taxez, Taxodinez, Taxodium. When. confronted 
with them you experience a maddening desire, once 
and for all, to disengage yourself from the influence 
of words and the bondage of botany. When all their 
precise applications and significances have been 
conquered, and committed to the tablets of an un- 
forgetting memory, a feat more worthy of a Senior 
Wrangler than a tree-student rambler has been 
achieved. 
All these unpromoted rank and file of the Yew 
family—to wit, the Cephalotaxi, Torreyas, Podo- 
carps, Prumnopitys, Saxegothea—have their dis- 
-tinguishing leaf, as well as their still more distinguish- 
ing fruit differences. Where the difficulty comes in, 
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