316 TAXUS ; OR 



closely placed in two rows along the shoots, tapering to both 

 ends, and furnished with an acute, spiny point, from three- 

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

 twisted footstalks, decurrent at the base, dark glossy green, 

 •with an elevated nerve along the middle on the upper surface, 

 but very much paler below, with the mid-rib and margins of a 

 dark green colour ; buds, furnished with persistent blunt- 

 pointed scales, keeled on the back. Branches, long, spreading, 

 much divided, and thickly furnished with extended branchlets ; 

 branchlets, very slender, more or less drooping at the points, 

 scattered irregularly in two flat horizontal rows, mostly forked, 

 and very extended. Male and female flowers on separate trees, 

 lateral and solitary on the under side of the branchlets. Fruit, 

 about the size of those of the common kind, but with the cup 

 more cylindrical and bell-shaped, and the nut or seed flattened, 

 globular, and more exposed. Seed-leaves, in twos. 



A handsome, large bush or small tree, with quite the ap- 

 pearance of the common Yew, furnished with numerous branches 

 to the ground, found plentiful on the mountains of Guajolota 

 and Real del Monte, in Mexico. 



It is tolerably hardy. 



No. 6. Taxus Lindleyana, Lawson, the Californian Yew. 

 Syn. Taxus Boursieri, Carriere. 

 ,, „ baccata Americana, Douglas. 



Leaves, arranged in two rows, flat, narrow, acute-pointed, 

 and somewhat curved on the branchlets, but more or less scat- 

 tered on the leading shoots and principal branches, from three- 

 quarters to an inch long, and nearly a line broad, linear -falcate, 

 rarely straight, of a glossy yellowish green, with a projecting 

 rib down the middle on the upper surface, and glaucous below, 

 except on the margins and mid-rib, which are of a glossy green, 

 with a yellowish footstalk one line long, a little enlarged at the 

 base, and decurrent. Branches, slender, very long, pendulous, 

 and covered with a yellowish bark. Fruit, solitary on the under 

 side of the branches, and exactly like those of the Irish Ycav 



