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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUlvI. 



tichous and forked, ending in a pungent mucro. 

 on calcareous hills. 



Native of Middle Florida, 



t 1. T". TAXiFO^LiA A7-n. The Yew-leaved Torreya. 



Tdentificalion. Am. in Annals of Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 130. ; Gard. Mag., vol. xvi. p. 659. 



^ifnimymes. Taxus montfina Nutt., not of Willd. ; Stinking Cedar, Florida. 



Engravings. Hooker's Icones Plantarura, t. 232. and t. 233. ; Gard. Mag., vol. xvi., figs. 74. and 75. ; 



and our^^s. 17.5.5. and 1756., in which m shows the male, and / the female, flowers and branchei 



from male and female plants. 



Spec. Char. See Gen. Char, 

 ance of yl'bies canadensis. 



An evergreen tree, with the habit and appear- 

 Florida, on chalky hills, all along the eastern 

 bank of the river Appelach. Height 

 20 ft. to 40 ft. Introduced in 1840. 

 Propagated by grafting on the com- 

 mon yew. 



The wood is dense, and closely 

 grained, and in old trees of a reddish 

 colour, like that of Juniperus vu' 

 giniana. It is of a strong and peculiar 

 odour, especially when bruised or 



T. (axifoUa. 



1756. 



burnt, and hence, in the country where it grows, it is frequently called 

 Stinking Cedar. It makes excellent rails, and is not liable to the attacki 

 of insects. {Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 129.) ^Canterbury Nursery. 



Genus III. 



SALISBU'R/^ Smith. The Salisburia. Lin. 



St/st. Monoe^cia Polyandria. 



Horn. Hort. Reg. Haff. 2. p. 903. 



Idcnt^ation. Lin. Trans., 3. p. 330. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 472. 

 Synoni/me. Ginkgo of Kaempfer, Linnsus, and others 

 Derivation. Named in honour of R. A. Salisbury, F R.S. L.S., &c., a distinguished botanist. 

 Ginkgo is the aboriginal name in Japan. 



Gen, Char. Male flowers in tapering, decurved, bractless catkins, which are 

 borne several from one bud. Flowers many in a catkin, each ai)pearing as a 

 stamen only, and consisting of a short filament-like stalk. Female flowers 

 borne from a bud, from which leaves are also produced ; and on peduncles, 

 either single or several on the pedicels of a Ijranched peduncle. Flowers 

 seated in a shallow cup, formed of the dilated tip of the peduncle or pedicel, 



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