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the Sierra Nevada to Tulare County at elevations 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 conti- 

 nental divide in 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, ^'-J' wide, dark green 

 above, pale below, with obscure midribs and slender petioles about -fa' long. Flowers 

 appearing in March. Fruit ripens in October. 



A bushy tree, rarely 25 high, with a short trunk occasionally 1 in diameter, 

 and numerous stout spreading branches; more often shrubby in habit and 12-15 



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tall. Bark ^' thick, dark purple-brown, smooth, compact, occasionally separating 

 into large thin irregular plate-like scales. "Wood heavy, hard, very close-grained, 

 dark brown tinged with red, with thin nearly white sapwood. 



Distribution. River bluffs and ravines on the eastern bank of the Appalachicola 

 River, in Gadsdeu County, western Florida, from Aspalaga to the neighborhood of 

 Bristol. 



