TAXUS, OR THE Yf:ws. 99 



Taxus baccata Jacksonii, Wm. Paul, Jackson's Weeping 



Common Yew. 



Syn. Jackson's Weeping Yew, Hort. 



A somewhat pendulous kind, with broad light-green foliage, 



all more or less incurved, falcate, and thickly covering the 



upper part of the branches, with the branchlets reddish-brown, 



numerous, short, obliquely placed, and more or less curved. 



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 Taxus Lindleyana, Lawson, Dr. Lindley's American Yew. 

 This kind is called " Wa-wa-neens" (fighting wood) by the 

 Indians along the N. W. coast of America, on account of its 

 wood being used by them for making bows. 



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 Taxus Wallichiana, Zuccarini, Dr. Wallich's Indian Yew. 

 This species is common in the British Himalayas and Bhotan, 

 flourishing best between 8,000 and 9,000 feet of elevation, but 

 ascending in a dwarfish form to 11,800 feet. In Kunawur and 

 Gurhwal it is called " Rikaling," " Ikaling,'' and very com- 

 monly " Sung-cha" (Yew-tree), or " Pung-cha" (Tea-tree), and 

 from the leaves and smaller twigs of which, according to Cap- 

 tain Strachey, the people of Ladakh make an inferior kind of 

 black tea, under the name of " Zang-cha," the first infusion of 

 which, if used, would heat the blood, and occasion pains in the 

 limbs. In the damp climate of Sikkim it does not descend 

 below 9,000 feet, and is very rare on the inner ranges, and un- 

 known on the rearward ones, but attains to a large size in 

 Kooloo, and on the Chumba ranges, at an altitude of 9,000 

 feet, where it forms large forests ; but of all the places in the 

 Himalayas where it is met with in greatest perfection, is at 

 Tonghnath, at an elevation of 9,000 feet, where it occurs in 

 company with Abies Smithiana, 



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