72 A HANDBOOK OF CONIFERS 



Var. contorta. 

 Shoots and branchlets twisted. 



Var. nana. 



Of dwarf habit, suitable for the rock-garden. 



T. cuspidata is distinguished from the common yew by its 

 larger, oblong buds and vertically placed leaves with abrupt 

 points and distinct, yellowish, stomatic bands. 



Although widely distributed in Japan it is not common in a 

 wild state. Introduced by Fortune about 1855 and quite hardy 

 in cultivation, thriving under similar conditions to the common 

 yew. 



Taxus floridana, Chapman. 



Taxus baccata, var. floridana, Elwes and Henry. 



A shrub or small bushy tree up to 25 ft. high with numerous 

 stout, spreading branches. Buds with loosely overlapping, ovate- 

 obtuse scales. Leaves very narrow, curved, dark green, f--l in. 

 long, oV— iV in. wide, the midrib obscure, the apex shortly pointed. 

 Seed similar to T. baccata. 



Native of W. Florida. 



Sargent, Silva of North America, x, 67 t. 515 (1896). 



Taxus globosa, Schlechtendal. 



Taxus mexicana, Senilis. 



Described as a small tree about 20 ft. in height, and discovered 

 in 1837 by Ehrenberg in S. Mexico, but of which little is known. 

 The foliage of specimens we have seen so labelled differs but little 

 from that of the common yew, except that the leaves are some- 

 what larger and more sharply pointed. 



TORRE YA, Arnott. 



Tumion, Rafinesque. 



Evergreen trees allied to Ceyhalotaxus, found in California, 

 W. Florida, China, and Japan. Bark furrowed, branches op- 

 posite or whorled. Buds ovate, acute, with a few shining scales 

 in opposite pairs. Leaves often aromatic or pungent, spirally 

 arranged, but on lateral shoots thrown by the twisting of their 

 bases into two opposite ranks, linear, rigid, tipped with a bristle- 

 like point, upper surface green, convex, lower surface with a 

 raised midrib and two glaucous stomatic bands sunk in longi- 

 tudinal furrows. Male and female flowers often on different 

 trees, but in cultivated specimens usually on different branches of 

 the same tree. Male floivers solitary in the axils of the leaves of 

 the current year's branchlet, composed of numerous stamens in 



