THE YEW. 391 



A very striking variety, of the Florence Court, or Irish Yew, 

 when well variegated. 



Taxus baccata fastigiata aurea variegata, Fisher. 



A handsome, golden variegated form of the Irish Yew, 

 raised in the nursery of Messrs. Fisher and Holmes of Sheffield. 



Taxus baccata Foxii, Knight, Fox's Dwarf Yew. 



Syn. Taxus baccata nana, Hort. 

 Foxii, Hort. 



A very dwarf kind, with much smaller and darker leaves 

 than the species. It grows little more than one or two feet 

 high, and rather spreading. 



Taxus baccata fructu-luteo, Loudon, the Yellow-berried 



Yew. 



This only differs from the common Yew in the colour of its 

 berries, which are of a beautiful golden yellow, and very hand- 

 some. 



Taxus baccata glauca, Carriere, the Glaucous Yew. 



Syn. Taxus baccata sub-glaucescens, Jacques. 



nigra, W.Paul. 



This is a very vigorous kind, with the leaves dark green 

 above, and bluish or glaucous gray on the under part, and with 

 the bark on the young shoots of a rusty brown colour. 



Taxus baccata Jacksonii, W.Paul, Jackson's Weeping 



Common Yew. 



Syn. Jackson's Weeping Yew, Hort. 



A nice pendulous kind, with broad light-green foliage, all 

 more or less incurved, falcate, and thickly covering the upper 

 part of the branches, with the branchlets reddish-brown, nu- 

 merous, short, obliquely placed, and more or less curved. 



