TAX US CUSPIDATA. 143 



Nevada to 8,000 feet, preferring the banks of streams and deep 

 ravines, and usually growing under larger coniferous trees ; its 

 eastern limit occurs on the Kocky mountains of Montana. It is a 

 smaller and more slender tree than the European Yew, with shorter 

 thinner leaves that abruptly terminate in a bristle-like mucro. 



The Calif ornian Yew was discovered by David Douglas during his 

 first mission to north-west America in 1825. It was introduced by 

 William Murray in 1854, but it is still exceedingly rare in British 

 gardens.* 



Taxus canadensis. 



A prostrate shrub seldom rising more than 23 feet above 

 the ground. Brandies spreading, elongated, stoutisli, much ramified and 

 covered with reddish brown bark. Branchlets slender, spreading or more 

 or less pendent; buds small, globose, with reddish brown pernlae. 

 Leaves shortly petiolate, crowded, pseudo-distichous in two ranks, shorter 

 and narrower than in the common Yew, and \vith revolnte margins. 



Taxus canadensis, Wildeuow, Sp. Plant. IV. 856 (1805). London, AH), et Frnt. 

 Brit. IV. 2093. Endliclier, Synops. Couif. 243. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 

 739. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 501. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 393. Beissner, 

 Xadelholzk. 176. Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soc, XIV. 249. 



T. baccata var. canadensis, Gray, Manual, ed. II. 425. Macoun, Cat. Canad. 

 Plants, 463. 



T. baccata, Hooker, W. Flor. Bor. Amer. II. 167 (in part). 



Kng. Canadian Ve\v. Fr. If dn Canada. Germ. Kanadischer Eibenbaum. 

 Ital. Tasso del Canada. 



The Canadian Yew is common in damp woods in many parts of the 

 forest country extending from Anticosti, Newfoundland, and Nova 

 Scotia through Canada to the northern shore of Lake Superior and to 

 Lake Winnipeg, f South of the Dominion boundary it spreads through 

 the northern States from New Jersey to Minnesota. It was introduced 

 early in the nineteenth century ; it is now but seldom seen in British 

 gardens, being far surpassed as a decorative plant by varieties of the 

 common Yew. 



Taxus cuspidata. 



A tree 40 50 feet high with a trunk 2 feet in diameter covered 

 with bright red bark;| under cultivation a much smaller tree. In Great 

 Britain, the oldest specimens are mostly shrubs with two -three or more 

 ascending much-branched stems. Branches spreading or ascending, 

 ramification distichous; bark reddish brown marked with outgrowths 

 decnrrent from the bases of the leaves. Branchlets numerous, short and 

 close-set. Leaves on the lateral shoots pseudo-distichous, often turned 

 upwards and inwards; on the erect shoots spirally arranged around them 

 . and spreading, 0'5 1 inch long, shortly petiolate and mucronate, dark 



* The Yew usually met with in cultivation under the name of Turn* br''rif<>// is 

 the short-leaved variety of T. baccata described in page 127 

 t Macoun, Catalogue of Canadian Plants, Joe. cit. 

 % Sargent. Forest Flora of Japan, 76. 



