144 TAXUS FLOEJDANA. 



lustrous green above, fulvous green below, the midrib marked by a 

 shallow keel on both sides. Fructification as in the common Yew. 



Taxus cuspidate, Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 61, t. 128 (1842). 

 Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 243. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 502. Franchet et 

 Savetier, Emim. Plant. Jap. I. 472. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 394. Masters in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. XVIII. 499 ; and in Jonrn. R. Hort, Soc. XIV. 299. 



T. baccate, Thmiberg, Fl. Jap. 275 (1784). 



T. baccate var. cuspidate, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 733. Beissner, 

 Xadelholzk. 173. 



Eng. Japanese Yew. Fr. If du Japon. Germ. Japanisclier Eibenbaum. Ital. 

 Tasso giapponese. Jap. Ichii, Momi-noki. 



Taxus cuspidata has been cultivated throughout Japan from time 

 immemorial but is known to be endemic only in the northern island, 

 Yeso, where it attains its greatest development. The wood, like that of 

 the common Yew, is tough, close-grained, and beautifully coloured and 

 is used by the wealthier inhabitants for cabinet-work and indoor 

 decoration, and by the Amos, the aboriginal inhabitants of Yeso, for 

 making bows. As distinguished from the European type, the leaves 

 are broader, more abruptly pointed, more leathery in texture and 

 lighter in colour. 



Taxus floridana. 



A bushy tree rarely 25 feet high with a short trunk about a foot in 

 diameter, and numerous short, spreading branches ; more often shrubby 

 in habit, 12 15 feet high. Bark thin, purple-brown, smooth, 

 occasionally separating into large, irregular, plate-like scales. Branches 

 slender ; buds small with loosely imbricated pale yellow perulse. Leaves 

 usually conspicuously falcate, O75 to 1 inch in length, dark green above 

 and paler below with rather obscure midribs and slender petioles. 

 Sargent, Silva of North America, X. 67, t. 515. 



Taxus floridana, Chapman, Fl. 436 (1860). Carriers, Traite Conif. ed. II. 741. 

 Hoopes, Evergreens, 384. Sargent, Forest Trees of N. America, 10th Census, IX. 

 U.S.A., 186. 



Taxus floridana is restricted to a narrow area in western Florida 

 extending about thirty miles along the eastern bank of the river 

 Appalachicola. It was discovered in 1833 by Mr. Hardy B. Groom; it 

 received, however, but little notice from botanists till it was described 

 by Chapman in his " Flora of the Southern States," published in 1860. 

 Except in habit, it is not easily distinguishable from the Canadian 

 Yew ; it has probably not yet been introduced into British gardens. 



DACEYDIUM. 



Solander in Forster's Plant, esculent. 80 (1786). Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 224 (1847). 



Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 493 (1868). Bentham and Hooker, Gen. Plant. III. 



433 (1881). Eichler in Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pfl. Fain. 106 (1887). Masters in 

 Jonrn. Linn. Soc. XXX. 8 (1893). 



A genus of trees and shrubs with heteromorphic foliage including 

 about twelve species, of which seven are natives of New Zealand, 

 one is endemic in Tasmania and one in Chile (the Lepidothtmuuix 



