Taxus 
baccata 
Taxus 
baccata. 
var. 
fastigiata 
178 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONT PERE, 
TAXINE. 
positions on the limestone cliffs there; as it does also 
on the rocks (of the same carboniferous limestone) 
at Matlock and elsewhere in Derbyshire. 
(November, 1869). A Yew tree in T. Scots 
garden, at the Home Farm, here, is remarkable 
for the great abundance of its berries, and still 
more for their large size and unusual form, being 
considerably longer or deeper than is usual. Their 
appearance is strikingly beautiful. There is 
nothing uncommon in the habit or foliage of the 
LECE: 
TAXUS BACCATA., 
Var. 2. fastigiata (the Irish Yew). 
Loudon, v. 4. 2066. 
Thrives exceedingly well here; there are many 
very handsome specimens, planted by my father 
in 1825; 1n various parts of the grounds. They 
bear fruit plentifully. I have never seen a trace 
of male flowers on this variety, either here or else- 
where; yet the seeds appear to be perfect) @ 
remarked this to Joseph Hooker (January, 1868), 
he said that he had never seen male flowers either 
and he believed that the female flowers of the 
Irish Yew are always fertilized by the floating 
pollen of the common Yew. It would be curious 
to ascertain whether plants raised from seeds of 
the Irish Yew would be invariably female. 
