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and all parts of the plant when bruised emit a disagreeable 

 odour. 



It is tolerably hardy in most places. 



No. 4. ToRREYA TAXiFOLiA, Amott, thc Ycw-leaved Torreya. 



Syn. Taxus Montana, Nuttall. 



„ Torreya Montana, Hort. 



Leaves, on the stems and principal shoots alternate, spread- 

 ing, or reflected, and rather distant, those on the branchlets 

 closely placed in two rows, nearly or quite opposite, rounded 

 at the base, and somewhat recurved at the extremity, linear, 

 frequently falcate, stiff, of a leathery texture, on very short 

 footstalks, twisted, and decurrent at the base, and tapering to a 

 long acute spiny point at the apex, somewhat lanceolate ; from 

 one to one inch and three quarters long, and one line and a half 

 broad, of a light green, glossy, and convex on the upper surface, 

 but without any nerve along the middle, while the under one is 

 slightly concave near the edges, pale glaucous grey, and marked 

 on each side of the mid-rib with two reddish narrow sunken 

 bands. Branches, numerous, mostly in whorls, spreading, 

 smooth, and two or three forked at each division ; branchlets, 

 somewhat two-rowed, and horizontal. Male catkins, linear ; 

 female flowers, without footstalks, and erect. Fruit, when ripe, 

 oval, a little pointed, nearly as large as an ordinary walnut, 

 with the external coat fleshy or rather leathery, and covering 

 the whole surface of the seed, except a minute perforation at 

 the top. Seed, solitary, and when deprived of its succulent 

 external covering, very much resembling a large acorn, with a 

 beautiful ruminated albumen, resembling the inside of a nut- 

 meg, and covered with a hard bony shell. Seed-leaves, in twos. 



A handsome pyramidal-shaped evergreen tree, with numerous 

 spreading branches, growing from forty to fifty feet high, and 

 eighteen inches in diameter ; found in the middle and Northern 

 parts of Florida, growing abundantly about Aspalaga, on Calca- 

 reous Rocks, and along the banks of rivers near Flat Creek. The 

 whole plant has a strong and particularly disagreeable smell, 

 especially when bruised or burned, and is called by the Ameri- 



