THE YEWS. 317 



(Taxus baccata i\istlgiata). Seeds, nearly globular, and yel- 

 lowish brown. Wood, very elastic, and used by the Indians to 

 make bows of. 



This kind, according to Murray, is a handsome tree, growing 

 thirty or forty feet high, and from four to five feet in girth five 

 feet from the ground, and found growing on the sides of glens, 

 under the shade of large trees, in Northern California. M. 

 Boursier, the French traveller, discovered this species in 1854, 

 growing along the banks of running streams on the higher 

 mountains of Northern California, in company with large trees 

 of Abies Douglasii and Pinus Lambertiana. Douglas found it 

 abundantly at the confluence of the Columbia, in 1825, and 

 to the northwards, but slightly differing in appearance from the 

 common Yew. 



No. 7. Taxus Wallichiana, Zuccarini, Dr. Wallich's Yew. 



Syn. Taxus virgata, Wullich. 



■ f ( Royle, and other writers on 

 „ „ nucilera, ^ Indian Conifer*. 



„ „ baccata Indica, Madden. 



Leaves, linear, tapering to an acute point, rather distant, 

 slightly curved or falcate, regularly two-rowed, alternate, con- 

 vex above, and revolute on the margins, from one inch to one 

 inch and a half long, and one line broad, with rather a long, 

 twisted footstalk, decurrent at the base, of a deep glossy green, 

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

 much paler and not glossy below ; buds, small, with persistent, 

 ovate, blunt-pointed scales. Branches, long, slender, much 

 spreading, and of a light-brown colour ; branchlets, very 

 slender, long, undivided, more or less pendant, and nearly the 

 same size all their length. Male flowers lateral on the under side 

 of the branchlets, and consisting of a number of scales, out of 

 which eight or ten connected anthers grow, like minute clusters 

 of primroses ; the female ones, which are on a separate plant, are 

 enveloped in scales, from which they gradually emerge, and 

 when ripe, are open at the top, displaying the nut or bony- 

 shelled seeds seated in a red, fleshy cup. Seed-leaves, in twos. 



