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and covered with small thin dark red-purple scales. Wood heavy, hard, strong, bright 

 red, with thin light yellow sap wood; used for fence-posts and by the Indians of the north- 

 west coast for paddles, spear-handles, bows, and other small articles. 



Fig. 92 



Distribution. Banks of mountain streams, deep gorges, and damp ravines, growing usu- 

 ally under large coniferous trees; nowhere abundant, but widely distributed usually in 

 single individuals or in small clumps from the extreme southern part of Alaska, southward 

 along the coast ranges of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, where it attains its 

 greatest size; along the coast ranges of California as far south as the Bay of Monterey, and 

 along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada to Tulare County at altitudes between 

 5000 and 8000 above the sea-level, ranging eastward in British Columbia to the Selkirk 

 Mountains, and over the mountains of Washington and Oregon to the western slopes of 

 the continental divide in northern Montana; in the interior much smaller than near the 

 coast and often shrubby in habit. 



Occasionally cultivated in the gardens of western Europe. 



2. Taxus floridana Chapm. Yew. 



Leaves usually conspicuously falcate, f ' to nearly 1' long, 3^ '-iV wide, dark green above, 

 pale below, with obscure midribs and slender petioles about iV in length. Flowers ap- 

 pearing in March. Fruit ripening in October. 



Fig. 93 



