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fl. scaly below. Style 0. Ovule surrounded at the base by 

 a ring which becomes a fleshy cupshaped disk surrounding 

 the seed. 



Tr. II. CUPRESSINE^E. Male fl. in catkins. Anth. 



inserted on the edge of the subpeltate scales. Fern. fl. few, 

 in a small catkin, erect ; no carpellary scale. 



2. JUNIPERUS. Anth. 47, 1-celled, inserted on the lower 

 edge of the scales. Scales of the fern, catkin imbricate, 

 lower ones barren. Ovules 3, surrounded by a 3-fid fleshy 

 involucre formed of the 3 uppermost connate scales of the 

 catkin. 



Tr. III. AB1ET1NEJS. FL in catkins. Anth. 2, 1-celled, 

 adnate to the underside of the scales. Fern. fl. a scalelike 

 open ovary in the axil of a membranous scale, bearing two 

 naked ovules pointing towards the axis [or, perhaps, fern, 

 fl. in pairs on an axillary scale.] Fr. winged. 



3. PINITS. Male catkins crowded, racemose. Scales of the 

 cone thickened and angular at the end. Fr. with a crus- 

 taceous coat. 



Tribe I. Taxinea. 



1. TAX'TJS Linn. Yew. 



1. T. baccdta (L.) ; 1. 2-ranked crowded linear acute, fl. axil- 

 lary sessile. E. B. 746. A low tree, trunk often attaining a 

 very considerable bulk. Fr. roundish. T. fastiyiata (Lindl.) 

 is not even a permanent variety. Mountainous woods and lime- 

 stone cliffs. T. III. IV. E. S, I. 



Tribe II. Cupressinece. 



2. JTJNIP'EKTJS Linn. Juniper. 



1. J. commmns (L.) ; 1. 3 in each whorl spreading linear sub- 

 ulate mucronate keeled exceeding the ripe fruit. E. B. 1110. 

 Fruticose, erect. L. with a broad flat shallow channel above, 

 the keel beneath with a slender furrow. Berries black, tinned 

 with blue, about half the lengih of the leaves 1 . Dry hills, 

 especially on a calcareous soil. Sh. V. E. S. I. 



1 A form intermediate between Sp. 1 and 2 is recorded by Mr. Ben- 

 nett from Scarp, Outer Hebrides, under the name var. J". intermedia, 

 Schur. H. & J.G. 



