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T. brevifolia Nutt. is found from Queen Charlotte Islands in western North America 

 southward through the coast ranges to the Bay of Monterey in California and west 

 to the slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Montana; the fourth species, T. globosa 

 Schlechtend, : grows in southern Mexico. In southeastern Asia T. Wallichiana 

 Zucc. is distributed from Nepal and Sikkim eastward along the Himalayas to the 

 Khasia Hills and through Upper Burmah and Malaya to Sumatra and the Philip- 

 pine Islands. In China T. cuspidata, var. chinensis Rehd. & Wils. is widely spread 

 and grows also in Formosa. In northeastern Asia T. cuspidata S. & Z. has a wide 

 range of distribution and is the only Yew found in Japan. 



TAXUS CUSPIDATA S. & Z. 



Plate V 



Taxtjs cuspidata Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Munch. IV. pt. 3, 232 

 (Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. II. 108 (1846). Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 243 (1847). Miquel 

 in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 169 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 333 (1867); in Siebold & 

 Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 61, t. 128 (1870). Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. 

 I. 472 (1875). Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 499 (1881). Miyabe in Mem. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. IV. 261 (Fl. Kurile Isl.) (1890). Sargent, Forest. Fl. Jap. 

 76 (1894). Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. I. 33, t. 15, fig. 1-18 (1900). Kent 

 in Veitch, Man. Conif. ed. 2, 143 (1900). Komarov in Act. Hart. Petrop. XX. 210 

 (Fl. Mandsh. I.) (1901). Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, PI. Wilson. II. 8 (1914). 

 Bean, Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isl. II. 582 (1914). Takeda in Jour. Linn. Soc. XLII. 

 486 (1914). Miyabe & Miyake, Fl. Saghal. 590 (1915). 



Taxus baccata Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 275 (not Linnaeus, according to Siebold & Zuc- 

 carini) (1784). Ruprecht & Maximowicz in Bull. Phys.-Maih. Acad. Set. St. 

 Petersbourg, XV. 142 (not Linnaeus) (1857). Ruprecht & Maack in Bull. 

 Phys.-Maih. Acad. Sci. St. PStersbourg, XV. 383 (1857). 



Cephalotaxus umbraculifera Siebold apud Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 239 (1847). 

 Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 473 (1875;. 



Taxus baccata, var. microcarpa Trautvetter in MSm. Sav. Etr. Acad. Sci. St. Peters- 

 bourg, IX. 259 (Maximowicz, Prim. Fl. Amur.) (1859). Fr. Schmidt in Mem. 

 Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 7, XII. no. 2, 175 (Reis. Amur. Sachal.) (1868). 



Taxus baccata cuspidata Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. 2, 733 (1867). Elwes & Henry, 

 Trees Gr. Brit. & Irel. I. 100, t. 31 (1906). Beissner, Handb. Nadelh. ed. 2, 51 

 (1909). 



Taxus baccata, subsp. 2. cuspidata Pilger in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-5, 112 (Taxaceae) 

 (1903). Matsumura, Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 1, 17 (1905). Hayata, Veget. Mt. 

 Fuji, 46 (1911). 



Taxus baccata, subsp. 2. cuspidata, var. a. latifolia Pilger 1. c. (1903) Matsumura 

 1. c. 18 (1905). 



The Japanese Yew is widely distributed in Japan from about latitude 34 

 northward through Hondo and Hokkaido to the Kurile Islands and Japanese 

 Saghalien. On the mainland it grows in the Amur region and southward through 

 Korea to Quelpaert in the Korean Archipelago. It has not been reported from 

 Mandshuria, and in China proper and in Formosa it is represented by the variety 

 chinensis Rehd. & Wils. As a wild tree T. cuspidata cannot be said to be com- 

 mon anywhere in Japan that I visited except, perhaps, in Kitami province, Hok- 

 kaido. On the lower slopes of Fuji-san in Suruga province, Hondo, and more 



