150 Postelsia 
over the foliage of the yew differs from that of 
the other conifers of this region in that it con- 
tains no resin and therefore is not at all aromatic, 
but has a purely bitter taste. 
The wood of the yew is hard, strong, fine- 
grained and durable, but on account of the com- 
paratively small size of the trees it is little used. 
The seedling has two seed-leaves. 
FAMILY PINACEH AL 
Resinous trees or shrubs with moncecious or 
dicecious axillary or terminal flowers either 
solitary or forming inflorescences. Staminate 
flowers usually cone-like with an elongated axis 
bearing the stamens and usually some sterile 
basal scales; stamens often leaf-like; pollen sacs 
two to many on each stamen. Pistillate flower 
cone-like, composed of an elongated axis bearing 
two to many fertile carpels, with or without 
similar sterile scales; ovules one to many on 
2ach carpel, erect or inverted, provided with 
two integuments, seldom exceeding the carpels 
and usually concealed by the latter. Seeds 
often winged, with a woody or leathery testa, 
