Taxus. 227 



erectum, oratuni, apice pertnsum, ovario disciformi, dc- 

 mnm in pericarpium cupuliforme succosum turg-escenti in- 

 sidens. Fructus succoso-Laccatus, monospermus. Peri- 

 carpium cupuliforme, subjjloboso-ovatum, apice trunca- 

 tum et late apertum, succosum, semen cingens et sape- 

 rans. Semen subrotundo-obovatum, ereclum, apice per- 

 foratum. Integumentum siniplex, osseum, nonuisi verlice 

 a nuclco distinctura. Embryo in axi albuniinis subfari- 

 uaceo-carnosi, ipso triplo brevior, rcctus, dicotyledonens, 

 inversus. Radicula verticem perforatum seminis spectans, 

 supera, per summum apicem albumini adnexa. Arbores 

 sempervirenfes, glaberrimae. Folia soiHaria, sparsa, disti- 

 cha, brevissime peltolata, anguste linearia, rigida, acuto- 

 mucronata. Gemmae in apice ramulorum axillares et ter- 

 minales , imbricato -squamosae ^ folia juvenilia in globum 

 coUecta, incurvo -incumbentia , planiuscula. (Charact. gen. 

 ex Rich. verb. mutat.) 



1. Taxus baccata lAnn. Spec. 1472. Engl Bot. t. 746. 

 Duham. Arh. 2. t. 86. Bull. Herb. t. 136. Blackw. Herb. 

 t. 214. Schkuhr, Handb. i.t. 339. Rich. Conif. t.2.fig. I. 

 Nees ah Esenb. Gen. \.t.9. Guimp., Abhild. t. 208..-. ^^ • 

 Culta im Thiergarten. Floret vero, t) 



CERATOPHYLLEAE Grai/., Caiul, Endl. 

 Flores monoeci, amenlacei. Amentum masculiim: 

 Flores 5 — 27, monandri, nudi, axi communi abbre- 

 viato insidentes; inferiores bracteis apice 2 — 3-cus- 

 pidatis sufTuHi, quibus opposili Filamentum brevissi- 

 mum, cum anthera continuum. Antliera bilocularis; 

 loculis extrorsis, collaleralibus, (in statu juvenili) bi- 

 locellalis, in verlice anfherae poro communi perfora- 

 tis; connexivo lato, caruoso, supra loculos producto 

 ibique plerumque tricuspidato*). Amentum femiueum 



*) Conne.xivum reelius apice sinnato-emarginalum , lobulis spinulosis. 



