THE PINE FAMILY. 



it and the common juniper medicinally, and it is still a prac 

 tice to flavour gin with its sweet aromatic fruit. 



On the junipers busy little basket carriers are sometimes seen 

 constructing- their lodgements for the winter ; these they skilfully 

 devise of the material abundantly at hand. 



THE YEW FAMILY 



Ta. 



xacccE. 



Represented in our range by two species of evergreen trees or shrubs 

 with linear ieai'es, dia'cious, axillary flowers^ and driipe-iiJ^e.Jieshy fruit. 



TORREY TREE. STINKING CEDAR. {PIa:e VIII.) 

 Tunnon Taxifoliuni. 



Bark: l^rownish ^[I'ey and tinged with orange; rough. IVood: lemon-yellow, 

 satiny. Sap7uood: lighter coloured. BraucJilets: olive-green. Leaves: often one 

 and a half inches long; growing two-ranked along the branches; sessile, or with 

 very short ])etioles; linear; sharply and rigidly pointed at the apex and rounded at 

 the base; bright olive-green and lustrous above and having parallel grooves 

 underneath on either side of the midvein; resinous. Staininate flinvers : growing 

 along the branches in short compact clusters and having bracts at their bases. 

 ri.'itillatc fltnocrs: few; solitary, nearly sessile and at the base covered with ini- 



