390 TAXUS, OR 



This is a slender variety, with smaller foliage than the com- 

 mon kind, but with a much stiffer and more erect habit, and is 

 called in some collections the Fulham Yew, or Upright Common 

 Yew. A very nice variety, not unfrequently obtained from 

 seeds of the common kind. The Taxus baccata Crowded is a 

 slight variety of this. 



Taxus baccata ericoides, Hort, the Heath-like Yew. 



Syn. Taxus ericoides, Hart. 

 empetrifolia, Hort. 

 microphylla, Hort. 

 baccata microphylla, Hort. 



A small slender, slow-growing variety, with very small dark 

 green foliage, and rather short, erect, slender twigs, very dis- 

 tinct in appearance, and only from one to two feet high. 



Taxus baccata fastigiata, Loudon, the Irish Yew. 



Syn. Taxus baccata Hibernica, Hort. 

 Hibernica, Hooker. 

 fastigiata, Lindley. 

 pyramidalis, Hort,, not Knight, 



This very distinct and singular variety has its leaves in tufts, 

 or scattered along the branchlets, and not two-rowed as in the 

 common Yew, with a fastigiata or broom-shaped head, having 

 all the branches erect, and closely compressed, like those of the 

 Lombardy Poplar. It also differs in having oblong berries, and 

 not rounded ones, as in the common kind. There are the follow- 

 ing varieties of it : 



Taxus baccata fastigiata variegata, Carriere. 



Syn. Taxus baccata Hibernica variegata, Hort. 

 fastigiata argentea, Knight, 



This variety only differs from the Irish Yew, in having a 

 portion of its foliage striped and margined with silvery white 

 or pale straw-coloured blotches. 



