240 TAXACEZE 
disposition of these foreign cousins of our Yew. In 
all probability Sir W. Scott was sublimely uncon- 
scious of the very existence of either of them. He died 
in the thirties of the last century, while the Cephalo- 
‘taxus and Podocarpus made their début amongst us 
at a later date, in the forties or fifties of the same 
epoch. Our British-grown Podocarps go unmentioned 
on the pages of Loudon, and are severely left alone 
in the seven volumes of the Trees of Great Britain ; 
presumably for the all-sufficient reason that so far 
they have failed here to attain to the dignity, or rise 
to the height, of the status of recognised and full- 
blown treehood. 
With a light-hearted disregard for botanical eti- 
quette we have coupled together, for the purpose of 
a discussion upon them, those (the Cephalotaxus and 
Podocarpee) whom Kew’s genealogical table has 
put further asunder. In that list they are enumerated 
as intertribally, if not directly tribally, connected. 
To allocate them in stricter regard to their 
place in the genealogical tree and propinquity of 
relationship, as fellow sub-tribesmen, the Cephalo- 
taxus should range alongside the Torreyas as fellow 
Salisburineans, and the Podocarps come next to the 
Yew as fellow Taxineans. 
The long-spun-out Greek names that they bear 
have been ominously avoided by the majority of 
authors who traverse the many highways and by- 
paths of composition. They are words, evidently, 
that, gua words, neither invite writers nor- entice 
poets. There is often a Dorian harshness about the 
sound of Greek nouns manufactured into. English 
expressions of language, that flings defiance at the 
varied capacities and concentrated talents of all the 
efforts of the combined nine Muses thrown into one. 
The name Cephalotaxus is derived from the Greek 
words xefad# (head)—in allusion to the form of the 
