TAXADS. 



SECOND NATURAL ORDER. 



TAXACEJE. 



Yews and Their Allies. 



This order of evergreens is really very numerous, 

 but as *its members are principally in the Old World 

 or the Southern Hemisphere, i't does not seem of im- 

 portance to us of the Northwest. The flowers are 

 dioecious, i. e. t male and female on separate trees. 

 The Order comprises four tribes with twelve genera 

 and about ninety species. Two genera only are rep- 

 resented in America, each with a species in the 

 Northwest. 



Thirteenth Genus TAXUS-Li 



THE TRUE YEWS. 



These trees are very numerous abroad, with two 

 species in the Eastern States and one in the North- 

 west. Fruit a small, red, fleshy, sweetish cup, con- 

 taining a solitary, erect, pointed seed. 

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