Californian Nutmeg with ‘its large foliage, and the common Yew 
the Zorreya taxifolia ; 
in fact, the foliage and fruit of Zorreya 
Myristica are more than twice the size of 7. tarifolia, and thus 
the common observer will never be at a loss to distinguish them. 
To the botanist I may mention the following discriminative 
marks :— 
TORREYA TAXIFOLIA. 
Branches pale ashy-brown. 
Leaves one inch long, half a line wide, 
convex above, grooved beneath from 
the reflexed margin, and of a paler 
hue, with a slightly raised parallel 
brownish line on each side the mid- 
rib; mucro short. 
Male flowers with the scales all acute 
and mucronated. 
Fruit scarcely an inch long, somewhat 
obovate and acute. 
Wood of a reddish colour, like that of 
Juniperus Virginiana (Dr. Torrey). 
Torreya MyristTIica. 
Branches red-brown. 
Leaves two inches and often more long, 
one line wide, nearly plane above and 
beneath, the under-side rather paler, 
with a depressed or sunken line of 
the same colour on each side the 
midrib; mucro long. 
Male flowers (not by any means fully 
developed) with the inner scales 
membranaceous, obtuse and erose. 
Fruit, the smallest specimen an inch 
and a half long, in shape exactly el- 
liptical. 
Wood yellow, like Box, as seen at Mr. 
Veitch’s Nursery, King’s-road, Chel- 
sea. 
Any further remarks would be superfluous ; further and more 
important distinguishing marks may be looked for in the perfect 
male and female fowers. ‘The plant has not only been imported 
alive by Messrs. Veitch, but they have reared many plants from 
seed. 
