TAXACEtE 71 



Var. aurea. 



Leaves faintly variegated with yellow. 



Found in E.N. America from Newfoundland to Virginia. 

 Although introduced in 1800, it has never become established in 

 cultivation. 



Sargent, Silva of North America, x, 63 (1896). 



Taxus chinensis, Pilger. 

 Chinese Yew. 



T. baccata, var. sinensis, Henry ; T. cuspidata, var. chinensis, Rehder 

 and Wils. 



A tree 18-50 ft. high with greyish brown or yellowish brown 

 branchlets. Buds pale brown with obtuse scales, the lower ones 

 lightly keeled. Leaves very dark green, distant or rarely over- 

 lapping, falcate, |-I in. long, v-r-l in. broad. Apex more or 

 less abruptly pointed. Seed broadly ovoid, i-^ in. long, | in. 

 broad, scarcely compressed, slightly two-angled, bluntly pointed. 



This yew and T. cuspidata are distinguished from T. baccata 

 by the shorter seed, and fruit much more freely than the common 

 yew. 



The Chinese Yew is scattered through Western Hupeh and 

 Szechuen, up to 2,000 ft. being most common on the carbon- 

 iferous limestone. 



PI. Wils. ii, 8 (1914). 



Taxus cuspidata, Siebold and Zuccarini.^ (Fig. 8.) 

 Japanese Yew. 



Taxus baccata, var. cuspidata, Elwes and Henry. 



A tree 50 or more feet high in Japan, with a trunk up to 6 ft. 

 in girth, with spreading or ascending branches. Bark red or 

 greyish-brown, lightly fissured. In cultivation it is of shrubby 

 habit. Buds oblong, chestnut-brown, composed of overlapping 

 concave scales more or less keeled on the back. Leaves standing 

 more or less vertically on the branchlets, straight or slightly 

 sickle-shaped, linear, |-1 in. long, i'-..-| in. wide, dark green above, 

 paler beneath with two yellowish -green bands of stomata, taper- 

 ing to a slender stalk at the base and ending abruptly in a horny 

 point at the apex. Seed similar to that of T. baccata, but a Uttle 

 longer and produced in greater profusion. 



Var. aurescens.2 



T. tardiva. 



A low and apparently slow-growing plant, with the leaves of 

 the current year's growth coloured deep yellow. Introduced 

 to the Arnold Arboretum from Japan. 

 ^Fl. Jap. 61, t. 128 (1842). ^ Journ. Am. Arb. i, No. 3, 191, Jan. 1920. 



