314 TAXUS ; OR 



Taxus baccata fastigiata, Loudon, the Irish Yew. 

 Syn. Taxus baccata Hibernica, Hort. 

 „ „ Hibernica, Hooker. 

 „ i, fastigiata, Lindley. 

 „ ,, pyramidalis, Hort, not Knight. 



This very distinct and singular variety has its leaves in tufts, 

 or scattered along the branchlets, and not two-rowed as in the 

 common Yew, with a fastigiata or broom-shaped head, having 

 all the branches erect, and closely compressed, like those of the 

 Lombardy Poplar. It also diflfers in having oblong berries, and 

 not rounded ones, as in the common kind ; there is the follow- 

 ing variety of it : — 



Taxus baccata fastigiata variegata, Carriere. 

 ^ Syn. Taxus baccata Hibernica variegata, Hort. 

 „ „ fastigiata argentea, Knight. 



This variety only differs from the Irish Yew, in having a 

 portion of its foliage striped and margined with silvery white or 

 pale straw-coloured blotches. 



A very striking variety, of the Florence Court, or Irish Yew, 

 when well variegated. 



No. 3. Taxtis Canadensis, Wildenow, the Canadian Yew. 

 Syn. Taxus baccata Canadensis, Loudon. 

 „ „ „ minor, Michaux. 



„ „ procumbens, Loddiges. 

 „ „ Canadensis major, Knight. 



Leaves, linear, crowded, rather narrow, mostly straight, but 

 sometimes slightly curved, extended, somewhat in two rows, 

 revolute on the edges, decurrent at the base, on very short 

 footstalks, abruptly tapering to the end, and terminating in a 

 spiny acute point, from three-quarters to one inch long, and one 

 line broad, of a pale yellowish glossy green above, and a little 

 rusty below; buds, covered with blunt, ovate, persistent scales, 

 which remain on for a long time at the base of each successive 

 growth, in a withered state. Branches, slender, rather numc- 



