CONIFER 197 
2, YTARUS, E. 
Male catkins few-flowered ; carpellary leaves peltate ; 
female flowers of a few minute scales and one terminal 
ovule, ultimately seated in a red fleshy cup; leaves linear, 
resinous. 
T. baccata, L., Yew; woods, frequent. 
3. PINUS, -L. 
Male catkins many-flowered; cone usually ripening 
the second year, composed of many female flowers, each 
consisting of a woody carpellary leaf, bearing two seeds 
on its under side; leaves acicular, in fascicles. Resinous 
usually evergreen trees. 
P. sylvestris, L., Scotch Fir; cone stalked, recurved 
when young, seeds winged, leaves 2 in a sheath; moun- 
tain woods, common. P. uzcinata, Ram. ; cone oblique at 
the base, seeds winged, leaves two in a sheath; mountain 
woods; Switzerland, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. P. Mughus, 
Scop. (#ontana, Mill.); stem partially prostrate, cone 
straight, longer than the leaves, scales with a depressed 
point in the middle, seeds winged; common at a high 
elevation. P. Pumzlio, Henk.; resembling the last, but 
more prostrate, cone shorter than the leaves, scales with 
a depressed point below the middle; less common; 
Switzerland, Jura, Bavaria, Styria, Dauphiny. P. Lariczo, 
Poir. (zgricans, Host., pyrenaica, Lap.); leaves in pairs, 
glaucous, very long; Carniola, Pyrenees. PP. Cemobra, 
L. ; leaves 3—5 in a sheath, very long; seeds not winged, 
very large, edible; very local; Grisons, Valais, Tirol, 
Salzburg, Dauphiny. P. Larix, L. (Adzes Larix, Lam., 
Larix europea, DC.), Larch; leaves in clusters of 15-20, 
