CONIFERS. (PIKE FAMILY.) 



!. T, <1isli< hum, Richard. (AMERICAN BALD Ornsmssh.) Leaves 

 linear and spreading ; also awl-shaped and imbricated on flowering braochlets. 

 Swamps, from S. New Jersey ? and Delaware, to Virginia, Kentucky, and 

 southward, where it is a very large and valuable tree. Marci*, ApriL 



7. JUNIPERUS, L. JUNIPKR. 



Flowers dioecious, or occasionally monoecious, in very small lateral catkins. 

 Anther-cells 3-6, attached to the lower edge of the shield-shaped scale. Fertile 

 catkins ovoid, of 3 - 6 fleshy 1 - 3-ovuled coalescent scales ; m fruit forming a 

 sort of berry, scaly-bracted underneath. Seeds 1-3, T)ony. Cotyledons 2. 

 Evergreen trees or shrubs, with awl-shaped or scale-like rigid leaves often of two> 

 shapes. (The classical name.) 



1. J. com m ft ills, L. (COMMON JUNIPER.) Leaver ITS threes^ Eaaear- 

 awl-shaped, prickly-pointed, spreading, bright green except the glaucotas-white 

 upper surface. Dry sterile hills, New Jersey to Maine eastward, northward, 

 and along the Great Lakes. May. Shrub also spreading cm the ground, or 

 rarely ascending, rigid. Berries dark purple, as large as a pea. (Eu.) 



2. J. Virginiana, L. (RED CEDAR. SAVIN.) Leaves- 4-ranked, 

 much crowded, on young plants and primary or rapidly-gjrowioag shoots awl- 

 shaped and somewhat spreading, in pairs or threes ; on older lateral twigs very 

 small and scale-like, closely imbricated, triangular-ovate. A branching shrub 

 or small tree, becoming 15 -30 high ; or, var. HtJMixis, Book., a widely spread- 

 ing or almost prostrate shrub. Dry, rocky or sterile hills ; common, extending 

 both northward and southward: the prostrate variety chiefly high northern. 

 April. Wood odorous, reddish, very compact and durable. Berries small, 

 purplish with a glaucous bloom. 



SUBORDER III. TAXINEJE. THE YEW FAMILY. 



8. TAXUS, Tourn. YEW. 



Flowers mostly dioecious, axillary from scaly buds ; the sterile in small glob- 

 ular catkins formed of naked stamens : anther-cells 3-8 under a shield-like 

 somewhat lobed connective. Fertile flowers solitary, scaly-bracted at the base, 

 consisting merely of an erect sessile ovule, with a cup-shaped disk around its 

 base, which becomes pulpy and berry-like (globular and red) in fruit, and partly 

 encloses the nut-like seed. Cotyledons 2. Leaves evergreen, flat, mucron ate, 

 rigid, scattered, 2-ranked. (The classical name, probably from rooi/, a low; 

 the wood being used for bows.) 



1. T. baccata, L., var. Canadensis. (AMERICAN YEW. GROUND 

 HEMLOCK.) Stems diffusely spreading ; leaves linear, green both sides. (T. 

 Canadensis, Willd.) Moist banks and hills, near streams, especially in tho 

 shade of evergreens : common northward, extending southward only along the 

 Alleghanies. April. Our Yew is a low and straggling or prostrate fetish, 

 never forming an ascending trunk. (Eu.) 



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