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rous, and spreading out horizontal, seldom ascending, but 

 sometimes more or less bent down at the extremities ; branch- 

 lets, arranged in two rows, and somewhat pendant. Male 

 catkins, globular, always solitary, and at the base of the leaf on 

 the under side of the branchlets. Fruit, like those of the 

 common Yew, but very much smaller. Seed-leaves, in twos. 



A low, spreading bush, growing three or four feet high, and 

 readily distinguished from the Taxus baccata by the brownish 

 appearance both of its leaves and bark, found in North America, 

 in Canada, and along the banks of the Antictem Kiver, in Mary- 

 land, and in shady rocky places along the Columbia River. 



It is quite hardy. 



4. Taxus cuspidata, Siebold, the Abrupt-pointed Yew. 



Leaves, linear, all more or less curved upwards, alternate, 

 stiff, leathery, and scattered along the principal leading shoots, 

 but somewhat two-rowed, and denser on the branchlets, from 

 three-quarters to one inch long, and one line broad, on rather 

 long footstalks, broadly decurrent at the base, abruptly pointed, 

 with a short, rigid, spiny point at the apex, deep glossy green 

 above, and pale yellowish green below, but not glaucous, and 

 with the thickened margins and mid-rib of a glossy green ; 

 buds, covered with oval, acute-pointed, imbricated scales, keeled 

 on the back. Branches, numerous and spreading ; branchlets, 

 rather stiff and angular, on account of the wide decurrent base 

 of the leaves. Fruit, unknown. 



A large, handsome bush, densely clothed with somewhat 

 ascending branches, and dark-green foliage, growing from 

 fifteen to twenty feet high, found on the Island of Jezo, in 

 Japan, where it is much cultivated in their town gardens, and 

 called by the Japanese ' Araraji.' 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 5. Taxus globosa, Schlechtendahl, the Mexican Yew. 

 Syn. Taxus baccata Mexicana, Hartweg. 



Leaves, linear, slightly curved or falcate, narrow, rather 



