THE YEW. 395 



with a short, rigid, spiny point at the apex, deep glossy green 

 above, and pale yellowish green below, but not glaucous, and 

 with the thickened margins and mid-rib of a glossy green ; 

 buds covered with oval, a cute-pointed, imbricated scales, keeled 

 on the back. Branches numerous and spreading. Branchlets 

 rather stiff and angular, on account of the wide decurrent base 

 of the leaves. Fruit unknown. 



A large, handsome bush, densely clothed with somewhat 

 ascending branches, and dark-creen foliage, growing from 

 fifteen to twenty feet high, found on the Island of Jezo, in 

 Japan, where it is much cultivated in the town gardens, and 

 called by the Japanese " Araraji." 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 6. Taxtjs globosa, Schlechtendahl, the Mexican Yew. 

 Syn. Taxus baccata Mexicana, Hartweg. 



Leaves linear, slightly curved or falcate, narrow, rather 

 closely placed in two rows along the shoots, tapering to both 

 ends, and furnished with an acute, spiny point, from three- 

 quarters to one inch long, and one line broad, on rather long, 

 twisted foot-stalks, decurrent at the base, dark glossy green, 

 with an elevated nerve along the middle on the upper surface, 

 but very much paler below, with the mid-rib and margins of a 

 dark green colour ; buds furnished with persistent blunt- 

 pointed scales, keeled on the back. Branches long, spreading, 

 much divided', and thickly furnished with extended branchlets. 

 Branchlets very slender, more or less drooping at the points, 

 scattered irregularly in two flat horizontal rows, mostly forked, 

 and very extended. Male and female flowers on separate trees, 

 lateral and solitary on the under side of the branchlets. Fruit 

 about the size of those of the common yew, but with the cup 

 more cylindrical and bell- shaped, and the nut or seed flattened, 

 globular, and more exposed. Seed-leaves in twos. 



A handsome, large bush, or small tree, with quite the ap- 

 pearance of the common Yew, furnished with numerous 



