Varieties 2 1 



but Mr. Tillett of Norwich 1 has produced one 

 with male flowers. It is a well-known feature of 

 the yew that it now and again becomes monoecious, 

 i.e. having both male and female flowers on the 

 same plant. 



The upright form and the arrangement of leaves 

 peculiarities which characterise the fastigiate 

 form are really juvenile or seed-bed characters 

 which have become persistent. Other varieties 

 are Taxus baccata procumbent and the Neidpath 

 yew, T. baccata erect a ; T. baccata fructu-hiteo, 

 a variety with yellow fruit, first found in 1817 in 

 an old orchard near Glasnevin, Dublin ; T. baccata 

 aurea, a beautiful golden-leaved plant, which is 

 mentioned in Plot's History of Staffordshire, A.D. 

 1686, as a ' yellow-leav'd Yew Tree' occurring in 

 that county ; T. baccata Dovastonii, a pendulous 

 form, which originated about a hundred years ago 

 at Westfelton, near Shrewsbury ; and T. adpressa, 

 of which variety a tree, measuring 3 feet in girth, 

 and having a diameter of shade of 30 feet, is found 

 in the garden of the Earl of Annesley at Castle- 

 wellan, Co. Down. 



Veitch gives a number of other varieties chiefly 

 of horticultural interest. 



The generic name Taxus is derived from the 

 Greek ra^os, which, from racrcrcu, 'to arrange,' has, 

 very probably, reference to the two-rowed arrange- 



1 Manual of Conifers. 



