CEPHALOTAXUS AND PODOCARPUS 230 
props up the fruit of the Podocarps asserts an un- 
mistakable independence of form and figure. 
PRUMNOPITYS CEPHALOTAXUS Popocarpus 
ELEGANS ForTUNEI 
Speaking of this Yew fraternity from the point 
of view of ornamental attraction, we might sum them 
up and say of them, that without magnitude to inspire 
us here, without flowers to render them visions of a 
perfected beauty, without the perfume of Araby to 
ingratiate them with others, they are interesting for 
all that, and fulfil a destiny in many a garden ground 
which tends towards the enrichment of its scenery. 
CEPHALOTAXUS 
(OF THE TRIBE SALISBURINEZ) anp PODO- 
CARPUS (oF THE TRIBE PODOCARPEA:) 
But here ’twixt rock and river grew 
A distant grove of sable Yew, : 
Sir WALTER Scorr. 
We do not wish to convey the impression that Sir 
W. Scott had in mind any planning out of suitable 
situations for new plant-life importations when he 
wrote these lines. Yet there exists no earthly reason 
why the Cephalotaxus and Podocarpus should not 
occupy such Scylla and Charybdis positions as the 
poet suggests, and present an appearance as described 
in the above-quoted couplet. It reads as if it might 
describe a spot especially chosen or created for the 
