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2. Taxus, L. 



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. uncinata, Ram. ; cone oblique at 

 the base, seeds winged, leaves two in a sheath; mountain 

 woods ; Switzerland, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. P. Mughus^ 

 Scop, (montanay 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, Pumilio, Haenk. ; 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, Laricio^ 

 Poir. (iiigricans, Host. , pyrenazca, Lap.); leaves in pairs, 

 glaucous, very long ; Carniola, Pyrenees. P. Cernbra^ 

 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. {Abies Larix^ Lam., 

 Larix europcea^ DC), Larch; leaves in clusters of 15-20, 



