THE YEW. 387. 



No, 1, Taxus adpbessa, Knight, the Short-leaved Japan 



Yew. 



Syn. Taxus tardiva, Lawson. 



„ Sinensis tardiva, Knight. 

 „ baccata adpressa, Carrilre. 

 „ brevifolia, Mort., not Nuttall. 

 Cephalotaxus adpressa, Hort. 

 „ tardiva, Siebold. 



„ brevifolia, Hort. 



Leaves oblong, or bluntly oval, rounded at both ends on the 

 lesser branchlets, but much longer and more pointed on those 

 of the leading shoots ; more or less two-rowed, flat, rather dis- 

 tant, on very short foot-stalks, decurrent, and terminating at the 

 apex in a very short spiny point, sometimes wanting on the 

 adult ones ; from two to four lines long, and one line and a half 

 broad, of a dark glossy green above, and glaucous below on 

 both sides of the middle nerve, the margins and mid-rib being 

 of a glossy light green colour ; buds very small, oval, and 

 covered with a few blunt persistent scales. Branches nume- 

 rous, much divided, horizontally spreading, and sometimes in 

 whorls ; lateral ones and branchlets,' in two rows, flat, slender, 

 closely placed in clusters towards the extremities, frequently 

 confused, short, and spreading. Fruit like that of the common 

 Yew, but much smaller, and with the seed more exposed. 



A dense, spreading, depressed bush, with numerous flat 

 spreading branchlets, thickly covered with flat, sombre green 

 leaves, seldom growing more than six or eight feet high, and 

 found on the mountains of Japan. 



It is quite hardy, but of slow growth. 



Taxus abpeessa steicta, Standish. 



A seedling variety, raised in the Eoyal Nursery, Ascot, with 

 upright leading shoots, and a more robust habit. . 

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