34- Taxaceae 



red, divided into broad rounded ridges by 

 shallow fissures; leaves ovate, long pointed, 

 \ of an inch long or less; cones purplish- 

 brown, much reflexed, clustered at the ends 

 of the branches, J inch long with 6 oblong 

 thin leathery scales with thickened spine- 

 bearing tips. 



Occasionally met with in the lower valleys 

 on the western slope of the Rockies; be- 

 coming an immense forest tree in the moist 

 valleys of the Selkirks where it forms a 

 striking feature of the landscape. 



TAXACE.E 

 Yew Family 



Trees or shrubs with narrow flat evergreen 

 or deciduous leaves and a drupe-like fruit. 



Taxus brevi- A Sma11 stra gg lin g tree or shrub 



folia Nutt. seldom over 20 feet high and up 



Western to 12 inches in diameter; bark 



Yew - thin, covered with greenish pur- 



