336 79. coNrPEBiE. 



(in the solitary fl.) erect. [Or, as some think : ovaries in pairs 

 (or several), inverted, on a scale (which becomes the cone-scale) 

 situated in the axil of a bract ; each of 2 connate carpels having 

 together the form of a horseshoe or ring and ultimately pro- 

 ducing a wing ; ovule between the carpels, its tips exposed ; or 

 erect, the 2 carpels uniting in the form of a cup, without a car- 

 pellary scale.] Fr. a cone, or solitary seed. Testa hard, crus- 

 taceous. Embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. Radicle next 

 the apex. — Woody tissue marked with circular disks ; without 

 medullary rays or proper vascular tissue. 



Tribe I. TAXINEAi. Male fl. in catkins. Fem. fl. solitary, 

 naked or braoteate, erect ; no carpeUary scale. 



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

 at the top. Stam. many. Anth. peltate, 3 — 8-ceIled. Fem. 

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

 a ring which becomes a fleshy oupshaped disk surrounding 

 the seed. 



Tr. II. CUPRES8INEJS. Male fl. in catkins. Anth. 4—7, 

 inserted on the edge of the subpeltate scales. Fem. fl. few, 

 in a small catkin, erect ; no carpellary scale. 



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

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

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

 involucre formed of the 3 uppermost connate scales of the 

 catkin. 



Tr. III. ABIETINEM Fl. in catkins. Anth. 2, 1-celled, 

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

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

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

 fl. in pairs on an axillary scale.] Fr. winged. i 



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

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

 taceous coat. 



Tribe I. Taxinem. 



1. Tax'tts Linn. Tew. 



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

 lary sessile. — E. B. 746. — A low tree, trunk often attaining a 

 very considerable bulk. Fr. roundish. — T.fastigiata (Lindl.) 

 is not even a permanent variety. — Mountainous woods and lime- 

 stone cMs. T. ni. IV. Yew. E.S.I. 



