320 78. CONIFEBiE. 



Tribe I. TAXINEM. Male fl. in catkins. ' Fern. fl. solitary, 

 naked or bracteate, erect ; no carpellary scale. 



1. Taxus. Catkins of male fl. oval, scaly below, flowering 

 at the top. Stam. many. Antb. peltate, 3 — 8-ceUed. Fern, 

 fl. scaly below. Style 0. Ovule surrounded at the base by 

 a ring wMch becomes a fleshy cupshaped disk surrounding 

 the seed.— G. F. G. Monoohl. 14. 



Tr. n. CUPBESSINEM. Male fl. in catkins. Anth. 4—7, 

 inserted on the edge of the sttbpeltate scales. Fern. fl. few, 

 in a small catkin, erect ; no carpellary scale. . 



2. JtrNiPBKUs. Anth. 4 — 7, 1-celled, inserted on the lower 

 edge of the scales. Scales of the fern, catkin imbricate, 

 lower ones barren. Ovules 3, surrounded by a 3-fid fleshy 

 involucre formed of the 3 ilppermost connate scales of the 

 catkin. — G. F. G. Monochl. 12. 



Tr. in. ABIETINEJE. Fl. in catkins. Anth. 2, 1-ceUed, 

 adnate to the underside of the scales. Fem. fl, a scalelike 

 open ovary in the axil of a inembranous scale, bearing two 

 naked ovules pointing towards the axis [or, perhaps, fem. 

 fl. in pairs on an axiUary scale.] Fr. winged. 



3. Pisrus. Male catkins crowded, racemose. Scales of the 

 cone thickened and angular at the end. Fr. with a crus- 

 taceous coat. — G. F. G. Monoohl. 6. 



Tribe I. Tawinea. 

 1. Tax'us Linn. Tew. 

 1. T. haccdta (L.) ; 1. 2-ranked crowded linear acute, fl. axil- 

 lary sessile.— A low tree, trunk often attaining a very consider- 

 able bulk. Fr. roimdish. — T. fastigiata (Lindl.) is not even a 

 permanent variety. It has scattered 1. and upright branches. 

 Irish yejo.^Mountainous woods and limestone clifis. T. TTT. 

 IV. Yew. E. S. I. 



Tribe II. Cupressinea. 



2. Jtjnip'ekus Linn. Jumper. 



1. J. comnvdnis (L.) ; 1. 3 in each whorl spreading linear su- 

 bulate mucronate keeled exceeding the ripe fruit. — Fruticose, 

 erect. L. with a broad flat shallow channel above, the keel beneath 

 with a slender furrow. Berries black, tinged with blue, about 

 half the length of the leayes.^Dry hills, especially on a calca- 

 reous soil. Sh. V. E.'S. L 



2. J. ndna (Willd.) ; 1. 3 in each whorl incurved linear-lan- 

 ceolate mucronate keeled equalling the ripe fruit. — E. S. S. 27 



