TAXADS. 



SECOND NATURAL ORDER. 



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, it does not seem of im- 

 portance to us of the Northwest. The flowers are 

 dioecious, i. e., 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 



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. 



