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the Cephalotaxus, followed example and provided 
a mystery birth, in the shape of a similarly constituted 
sport, which goes by the full name of Cephalotaxus 
Pedunculata var. Fastigiata. 
PODOCARPS 
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I want to get back, I want to get back, 
To the place where I was born. 
SotpigzR’s Sone, Michigan, 
These homesick lines seem a refrain suited to the 
presence of Podocarps in England, and the distant 
homes they pine for are variously situate, in Aus- 
tralia, Asia, and S. America. Their leaves in the 
abstract may bear a resemblance to the Cephalotaxi, 
but the disposition of them does not. While those 
of the Cephalotaxi are pectinately arranged (except 
the fastigiate form) on the lateral branches, those 
of the Podocarpi arise at various angles from the 
stems and are variable in their shape and attachment. 
While the Cephalotaxi present to our view the neat, 
combed effect of a well-dressed and parted head of 
hair, the Podocarpi, to pursue the metaphor, might 
pardonably be said to follow after the fashion of 
that state of lock disarray, so often noticeable in 
the head-gear affected by professors of music and 
poetry. 
In St. Matthew’s Gospel we read the words that 
“a tree is known by its fruit.” It is the fruit of the 
Podocarps, or rather the stalk of the fruit, that has 
distinguished them from other trees in the estimation 
of savants, and that is responsible for their holding an 
isolated position in the tribal table of the tree-world. 
As has been remarked, they are not the sort of 
trees or bushes constantly met with, but if they were 
chanced on, the differences in their length of leaf is 
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