THE YEW. 391 



A very striking variety, of the Florence Court, or Irish Yew, 

 when well variegated. 



TaxuS BACCATA FASTIGIATA AtJREA VAEIEGATA, Fislier. 



A handsome, golden variegated form of the Irish Yew, 

 raised in the nursery of Messrs. Fisher and Holmes of Sheffield. 



Taxtjs BACCATA Foxil, Knight, Fox's Dwarf Yew. 



Syn. Taxus baccata nana, Hwt 

 „ „ Foxii, Hort. 

 A very dwarf kind, with much smaller and darker leaves 

 than the species. It grows little more than one or two feet 

 high, and rather spreading. 



Taxtjs baccata fructu-luteo, Loudon, the Yellow-berried 



Yew. 

 This only differs from the common Yew in the colour of its 

 , berries, which are of a beautiful golden yellow, and very hand- 

 some. 



Taxus baccata glauca, Carrihe, the Glaucous Yew. 



Syn. Taxus baccata sub-glaucescens, Jacques. 



nigra,, W.Paul. 



This is a very vigorous kind, with the leaves dark green 

 above, and bluish or glaucous gray on the under part, and with 

 the bark on the young shoots of a rusty brown colour. 



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

 Common Yew. 



Byu. Jackson's Weeping Yew, Hort. 

 A nice pendulous kind, with broad light-green foliage, aU 

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

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

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



