Question: How are Cerastium and Cypress similar?
Context: Lepiota castaneidisca is a species of agaric fungus in the family Agaricaceae.  Formally described in 1912, it was for a long time considered the same species as the similar "Lepiota cristata" until molecular analysis reported in 2001 demonstrated that it was genetically distinct.  It is most common in coastal and northern California, and has also been recorded in Mexico.  A saprobic species, it is usually found under redwood and Monterey cypress.  Its fruit bodies (mushrooms) have white caps with an orange-red to orange-brown center that measure up to 3.2 cm wide.  The cream-colored to light pink stems are up to 6.5 cm long by 0.2 – thick, and have a ring.  "L. castaneidisca" can be distinguished from other similar "Lepiota" species by differences in habitat, macroscopic, or microscopic characteristics. Cerastium is a genus of annual, winter annual, or perennial plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae.  They are commonly called mouse-ear chickweed.  Species are found nearly worldwide but the greatest concentration is in the northern temperate regions.  There are about 200 species.  A number are common weeds in fields and on disturbed ground. Thujopsis (pronounced ) is a conifer in the cypress family (Cupressaceae), the sole member of the genus being Thujopsis dolabrata.  It is endemic to Japan, where it is named asunaro (あすなろ).  It is similar to the closely related genus "Thuja" (Arborvitae), differing in the broader, thicker leaves and thick cones.  It is also called hiba, false arborvitae, or hiba arborvitae. The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian police force, established in 1873 by the Prime Minister, Sir John Macdonald, to maintain order in the North-West Territories.  The mounted police combined military, police and judicial functions along similar lines to the Royal Irish Constabulary, and deployed the following year to the Alberta border in response to the Cypress Hills Massacre and subsequent fears of a United States military intervention.  Their ill-planned and arduous journey of nearly 900 mi became known as the March West and was portrayed by the force as an epic journey of endurance.  Over the next few years, the police extended Canadian law across the region, establishing good working relationships with the First Nations.  The force formed part of the military response to the North-West Rebellion in 1885, but faced criticism for their performance during the conflict. Cypress is a conifer tree or shrub of northern temperate regions that belongs to the family Cupressaceae.  The word "cypress" is derived from Old French "cipres", which was imported from Latin "cypressus", the latinisation of the Greek κυπάρισσος ("kyparissos"). Taxodium is a genus of one to three species (depending on taxonomic opinion) of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae.  The generic name is derived from the Latin word "taxus", meaning "yew", and the Greek word "εἶδος" ("eidos"), meaning "similar to."  Within the family, "Taxodium" is most closely related to Chinese swamp cypress ("Glyptostrobus pensilis") and sugi ("Cryptomeria japonica"). A strand swamp or strand is a type of swamp in Florida that forms a linear drainage channel on flatlands.  A forested wetland ecological habitat, strands occur on land areas with high water tables where the lack of slope prevents stream formation.  Strands are more linear than the cypress dome swamps that form in more rounded depressions and are fairly similar to floodplain swamps that form further north along streams and rivers. Lactarius subtorminosus is a member of the "milk-cap" genus "Lactarius" in the order Russulales.  Described as new to science by William Chambers Coker in 1918, it is known from North America.  The whitish to cream-colored cap reaches 5 – in diameter and is tomentose, with margins folded inward.  The gills are packed closely together, and are cream when mature.  Gills that are cut will first turn pink then light brown.  The stem is about 1.5 cm long and 1.1 – thick, white overall with a few cream dots, and covered with a dense layer of small hairs.  When cut or injured, the fruit bodies will ooze a sparse whitish latex with a taste similar to cypress wood.  The spores are roughly spherical, warted, and measure 5.8–6.5 by 6.5–7 μm.  "Lactarius subtorminosus" may be distinguished from the similar "L. torminosus" by its milder latex and smaller spores. Libocedrus is a genus of five species of coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to New Zealand and New Caledonia.  The genus is closely related to the South American genera "Pilgerodendron" and "Austrocedrus", and the New Guinean genus "Papuacedrus", both of which are included within "Libocedrus" by some botanists.  These genera are rather similar to the Northern Hemisphere genera "Calocedrus" and "Thuja": in earlier days, what is now "Calocedrus" was sometimes included in "Libocedrus".  They are much less closely related, as recently confirmed (Gadek et al. 2000).  The generic name means "teardrop cedar", apparently referring to drops of resin. The Jay Lewis House is a historic house at 12 Fairview Drive in McGehee, Arkansas.  The two story wood frame house was built in 1955 to a design by Edward Durell Stone, an Arkansas native and a leading proponent of Modern architecture.  It is the only Stone-designed house in Desha County, and one of only five in the state.  The exterior of the house is clad in vertical cypress boards, with a porch that wraps completely around the house, and a breezeway connecting to a carport, built at the same time.  The porch roof is supported by six Douglas fir beams.  The interior of the house is based on Stone's Modernist reinterpretation of the traditional Arkansas dog trot form, with the central living/dining/kitchen area acting as the central element of that form.  Other rooms of the house connect to this section, and are separated from it by Shōji screens.  The house's basic design is similar to that of another house Stone designed in Englewood, New Jersey.  The house is largely unchanged since its construction; one chimney has been replaced due to storm damage.
Answer: plants