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THE YEW. 

 TAXUS BACCATA. P/. 



Fructification. Barren flowers, without 

 petals, conflfting of many united 

 chives. Fertile flowers, generally on 

 a feparate tree, without petals, fuc- 

 ceeded by a berry, fucculent, globular, 

 open at the end, containing one feed. 



Specific character. Long, narrow, pointed 

 leaves, growing near together. Bark 

 reddifh. Berries red. 



THE yew is a native tree of this country, 

 and is found in rocky and mountainous 

 fituations, where, though of flow growth, 

 and moderate height, it fomedmes arrives 

 at great thicknefs of trunk. It is, how- 

 ever, more commonly feerr in a planted 

 ftate, particularly in church-yards, pro- 

 o 3 bably 



