378 POLYGAMIA — MONOFXIA. [Alriplex. 



niucronale and pungent leaves. Flowers axillary, small. The berries, 

 which arc blnish-black, form an important article of commerce in Hol- 

 land, where they are employed in the maniifactnro of Geneva, and impart 

 to it that pecnliar flavour which our distillers try to imitate by oil of tur- 

 pentine. The wood is reddish and serves for veneering. 



14. Taxus. Linn, Yevp. 



1. T. baccdta, L. (^common Yew) ; leaves 2-ranked crowded 

 linear acute, flowers axillary sessile. E. BoL t. 746. 



Mountain woods. Fl. March. T; . — A low tree, but with a trunk often 

 of considerable diameter. The noble //ew which still remains in Fortingal 

 Church-yard at the entrance to Glen Lyon, measures, according to Pen- 

 nant, bG\ feet in circumference. The icood is hard, beautifully veined, 

 much valued for Cabinet-maker's work, and was formerly still more highly 

 prized for making bows, and on that account is said to have been planted 

 extensively by our ancestors in church-yards. Leaves distichous, linear, 

 persistent, deep green. Drupes red, esteemed poisonous. Tiie Irish, 

 or Florence-court Yew, now generally known in our gardens, has scat- 

 tered leaves, and as Mr J. T. Mackay observes, a different habit from 

 the common kind, and is deserving of more accurate investigation. It is 

 T. fastigiata ol Lindl. Si/n.; but if a species, is not wild in Britain. 



CLASS XXIII. POLYGAMIA. Stamens and pistils 

 separate or imited, on the same or on different plants, and 

 having 2 different kinds of perianth. 



ORD. I. MONOECIA. Flowers different on the same plant. 



1. Atriplex. Sterile ff and united fl. Perianth single, 5- 

 partite, inferior. Stam. 5. Style bipartite. Pistilliferous fl. 

 Perianth single, of 2 valves. Stain. 0. Fruit 1 -seeded, covered 

 by the persistent enlarged perianth — Nat. Ord. Chenopode^, 

 Juss. — Named from a, not, and rgotps/i/, to nourish.^ 



POLYGAMIA— MONOECIA. 



1. Atriplex. Linn. Oraclie. 



1. A. portulacoides, L. (shrubby Orache or Sea Purslane); stem 

 shrubby, leaves obovato-lanceolate entire silvery white. E. Bot. 

 t. 261. ^ 



Muddy sea-shores, England and Ireland. Mull of Galloway, Dr Gra- 

 ham; near Helensburgh, Scotland. Fl. July, Aug. If. 1 2 ft. and 



more high, with small, yellowish ^OM;ers in axxWdvy spiltes. 



2. A. lacinidta, L. (frosted Sea Orache); stem herbaceous 

 spreading, leaves ovato-deltoid dentato-sinuate very mealy be- 

 neath. E. Bot. t. 165. 



Sandy sea-shores, not uncommon. Fl. July, Aug. Q.—Vi hole plant 

 hoary. Flowers: sterile ones in termm3\ spikes ; the others axillary, 

 nearly solitary. 



