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SPECIES L—TAKUS BACCATA. Lin. 
Prarse MCCCLXXXIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DXXXIUIL. Fig. 1147. 
Leaves numerous, paler and yellowish beneath, slightly reflexed, 
strapshaped, abruptly acuminate. Flowers sessile, axillary. 
Var. a, vulgaris. 
T. baccata, Lindley, Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 241. 
Branches spreading. Leaves bifarious. 
Var. 6, fustigiata. 
T. fustigiata, Lindley, Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 241. 
Branches suberect. Leaves pointing in all directions. 
On rocks, especially of limestone, chalky banks, and in woods. 
Widely distributed in England and the southern half of Scotland, but 
probably not native in the latter country, unless it be so at Glenure, 
Upper Lorn, Argyle, where Lightfoot states that, in 1777, there were 
the remains of an old wood of yew trees. Rare, but truly native in 
the north and west of Ireland. Var. @ is the Irish or Florence Court 
yew, and is perhaps a monstrosity rather than a variety, as only two 
trees of it have ever been found wild, these were found near Florence 
Court, co. Fermanagh. 
England, Scotland (?), Ireland. Tree. Spring. 
An erect tree of no great height, but often with a very thick 
trunk and long spreading branches. Leaves, though inserted all round 
the twigs, spreading right and left, } to 1} inch long, dark, glossy 
green above, dull yellowish green below, somewhat fleshy, terminated 
by a short, weak, not pungent point. Flowers diccious. Male 
flowers in minute subglobose yellowish catkins. Female flowers with 
greenish bracts at the base. Fruit formed by the enlargement of 
the disk, the size of a large pea or small black currant, somewhat 
cylindrical, about as long as broad, truncate and excavated at the 
apex, where the naked seed is exposed, bright red, dim, with a thin 
skin containing an abundance of slimy juice. Seed about the size 
of a sweet pea, placed in the enlarged fleshy berrylike cup, olive- 
brown, roundish-ovoid, compressed, coarsely punctured. 
The var. @ has the leaves of a darker green, and is very different in 
habit from the common yew. Only the female plant of it is known, 
which produces seed when fertilised by the pollen of the common 
yew, but the offspring of this crossing are said to be always var. a, 
