m8 CXXXIL CONIFER. Taxus. 
and durable. It is used for fences, aqueducts, tubs and pails, and in the manu- 
facture of drawing pencils. April, May. 
B. prostrata. Lvs. ovate, submucronate, glandular in the middle, appressed; 
berries tubercular; st. prostrate, creeping.—A ‘shrub, on gravely shores, with 
creeping branches 4—8tf long. 
Trise3. TAXINER. 
Fertile flowers solitary, terminal, consisting of a naked oyule maturing into a 
kind of drupe. 
6. TAXUS. 
Gr. ragov, an arrow ; arrows were formerly poisoned with the juice of the yew tree. 
Flowers 0 @ or £, surrounded with numerous scales. d' Stamens 
8—10, monadelphous ; anthers peltate, 6—8-celled, cells dehiscent 
beneath. solitary, consisting of a single ovule, becoming in fruit a 
fleshy, 1-seeded drupe.—T'rees or shrubs, with evergreen, linear, alter- 
nate leaves. 
T. Canavensis. Dwarf Yew. Ground Hemiock. 
Las. linear, mucronate, 2-ranked, revolute on the margin; sterile recepta- 
cles globose.—A small, evergreen shrub, with the general aspect of a dwarf 
hemlock spruce (Pinus Canadensis). It grows on thin, rocky soils in shady 
places, 2—3f long, Can. to Penn. and Ky, ‘eaves nearly an inch long, ar- 
ranged in 2 opposite rows, on the sides of the branchlets. Staminate flowers in 
small, roundish, axillary heads. Drupes oval, concave or open at the summit, 
red and juicy when mature. May. 
