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YEW 



Fig. 69. Yew, Taxus baccata, L. 1, branch with male flowers ; 

 2, shoot with two ripe "berries"; 3, young male flower; 4, the same 

 exposing and emptying the anthers; 5, ar/thers; 6, female flower; 7, the 

 same in section ; 8, details of the same : * , micropyle ; Is, the single 

 integument ; x, outer part of nucellus which hardens to form the shell; 

 nc, nucellus with embryo-sac and endosperm (edp) ; cp, archegonia 

 ("corpuscula"); a, arillus; b, scales. 9, nearly ripe "berry": a, arillus; 

 is, seed. 10, ripe "berry" in section : a, arillus; e, embryo. 11, needle 

 and its transverse section ; 12, the same of Silver Fir, and 13, of Spruce 

 (Wi). 



