Eplmlra. TAXACE^. |Q9 



coluiuii : n-itile aiuciits pedunculate; the peduncle ^ to 3 lines lon^ or more, with 

 reduced bracts or rarely naked ; bracts of the anient 4 or 5 pairs, round-ovate : fruit 

 3 or 4 lines long, oxserted, acutish : niicroitylo a line long. — I'roc. Aiuer. Acad. 

 xiv. 298. E. antisyphilitica, Watson, Dot. King Exp. 328, t. 39. 



From N. Nevada and the eastern base of tlic Sierra Nevada to tlie Colorado Valley (Fort 

 Jlohave, Cooper), Northern Mexico and the Rio Grande. Rather varial)l(', the more northern 

 and westein form with the fruit more freiiuently in ]iairs and the aments longer pedunculate, but 

 the form with long naked pediniclcs rare. The older bark usually becomes white and shreddy. 

 S[)ccimens without (lowers or fiuit from the Santa \\\n Mountains {Brewer) and Fort Tejon, 

 probably Ixdong to this species, though with distinct persistent scales. 



E. ANTlsYriilMTK'A, C. A. Meyer, of W. Texas and Northern Mexico, has very weak stems 

 several feet long, nearly prostrate or su[)i)orted by other shrubs, with very short or setaceously 

 tipped distinct subpeisistent scales ; jieduncles veiy short: bracts of the staminate aments 4 to 6 

 pairs, of the i)istillate 3 or 4 pairs : filaments distinct above : fruit 3 lines long. 



* * Scales 3-loljC(l and branches ternate : bracts in threes o.nd scarcely connate, 

 of the pistillate aments viostbj scarlous and more or less unfjuicidate : fruit 

 solitary, rarely in threes. 



2. E. Californica, Watson. Stems decumbent or suberect, the branches not 

 spinose : scales oblong, acutish, sheathing but soon splitting to the base and recurved, 

 long-persistent and often dark-colored, H to 3 lines long : staminate aments globose, 

 sessile, of 4 whorls of nearly distinct bracts : perianth broad, included : filaments 

 (4 or 5) united to the summit : fertile aments sessile, of 4 or 5 whorls of rather 

 rigid reniform-orbicular entire bracts with a very short broad claw : fruit solitary, 

 ovate, 4-angled, acutish, smooth, 3 to 3^ lines long. — Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 300. 



San Diego County ; promontory opposite San Diego and in Jamul Valley, Pulmcr. The other 

 two species of this jieculiar group liiive mucli more conspicuously scarious bracts with narrow 

 claws scarcely at all connected at base, and are found from S. Utah to the Rio Grande ; viz., E. 

 riUFintCA, Torr., erect, with spinosely tijiped branches and consi)icuous persistent sheathing 

 acuminate scales (3 to 6 lines long) becoming white and shreddy; staminate perianth cuneate- 

 oblong, includeil ; the fertile aments of numerous whorls of entire bracts 5 or 6 lines long ; fruit 

 smooth, 6 lines long: —and E. Tokiikvana, Watson, similar but the branches not spinose and 

 the short acutish .scales less persistent and not becoming shreddy ; staminate perianth round- 

 ovate ; fertile aments with fewer (6 or 7 whorls) ofteu creuulate bracts 3 to 5 lines long ; fruit 

 scabrous, about 4 lines long. 



Order CII. TAXACE^. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs, sparingly resinous, with scaly buds, and (in our genera) 

 scattered linear leaves spreading in 2 ranks, the flowers dicEcious, axillary and soli- 

 tary, achlamydeous and naked or surrounded l)y the imbricated and usually decus- 

 sate bud-scales ; staminate flowers with the filaments monadelphous in a column, 

 each filament surmounted by several more or less united pendent anther-cells, de- 

 liiscing longitudinally on tlio lower side ; pollen globose : fertile llowor of a solitary 

 orthotropous ovule, which in fruit becomes a bony-coated seed raised upon or more 

 or less surrounded by or consolidated with a fleshy disk, cup, or other coating. 

 Embryo axile in fleshy or farinaceous albumen ; cotyledons oidy 2, scmiterete. 



An onler, usually incduded in the Conifnrai, approaching the CitprrssinrK through the inter- 

 mediate Podocn.r])CfV. The Tfuancre i)roper are conlined to temperate Asia and America, a single 

 S]iecie3 extending its range through Europe. The larger suborder Podoca rp>ir are peculiar to the 

 warmer regions of Asia, Africa, Australia and the adjacent islands, and S. America. 



1. Torreya. Ovule within an urceolate disk ]ieiforate at the apex, which becomes drupe-like iu 



fruit. Albumen fleshy, ruminate. Anther-cells 4. 



2. Taxus. Ovule on an annular disk, which becomes a small berry-like cup surrounding the 



seed. Albumen farinaceous. Anther-cells 5 to 9. 



