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1. Torreya calif ornica Torrey. California Nutmeg. 



Leaves lJ^-2 inches long, j4 inch wide, tapering slightly to the sharp- 

 pointed apex, dark glossy green above, pale beneath; fruit 1-1^^ inches long. 



Tree sometimes 80 feet high, with spreading or drooping branches and 

 smooth, scaly bark. Native of central and northern California in the Coast 

 Ranges and the Sierra Nevada. 



4. Taxus. Yew. 



Trees or shrubs with spreading or erect branches and scaly bark. 

 Leaves flat, linear, 2-ranked. Flowers dioecious, axillary; pollen-sacs 6-8, 

 arranged in a circle. Fruit with a bright red fleshy viscid open cup partly 

 enclosing the erect stone. 



A genus of approximately 8 closely related species, distributed through 

 the north temperate regions. 



L Taxus baccata L. English Yew. 



Leaves linear, 2-rank;ed, usually falcate, shortly accuminate, dark green 

 above, pale beneath, ^-% inch long; fruit /^-}4 inch broad, with almost 

 globose aril. 



The English Yew is a native of Europe, western Asia and northern 

 Africa. It has long been cultivated and many garden forms exist. Several 

 shrubs are in the neighborhood of the Cactus Garden, especially near the 

 entrance. 



la. Taxus baccata fastigiata Loud. Irish Yew. 

 Leaves linear, as in the tjrpical form, but spreading from all sides of the 

 erect fastigiate branches. 



Specimens are on the borders of the Cactus Garden. 



lb. Taxus baccata adpressa Carr. 



This variety is distinguished by its broader and shorter, oblong obtuse 

 leaves. 



Our specimens are the compact erect form. They are on the east and 

 west sides of the Cactus Garden. 



2. PiNACE^. Pine Family. 

 Trees or shrubs with resinous wood. Leaves linear, needle-like or 

 scale-like, spirally arranged or decussately opposite, evergreen or in a few 

 genera deciduous. Flowers dioecious; staminate in ament-like deciduous 

 clusters; pollen-sacs 2-several. Fruit, a woody cone, made up of several 

 scales, each with or without a subtending bract, bearing 1 or more seeds at 



