944 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
tichous and forked, ending in a pungent mucro. Native of Middle Florida, 
on calcareous hills. 
21. T. raxiro‘uia Arn, The Yew-leaved Torreya. 
Jdentification, Arn. in Annals of Nat. Hist., vol. Lp 130. ; Gard. Mag., vol. xvi. p. 639. 
Synonymes. Taxus montana Nutt., not of Willd. ; Stinking Cedar, Florida. 
Engravings. Wooker’s Icones Plantarum, t. 232. and t. 233. ; Gard. Mag,, vol. xvi., figs. 74. and 75. , 
and our figs. 1755. and 1756., in which m shows the male, and f the female, flowers and branches 
from male and female plants. g 
Spec. Char. See Gen. Char, An evergreen tree, with the habit and appear- 
ance of Abies canadénsis. Florida, on chalky hills, all along the eastern 
bank of the river Appelach. Height 
20 ft. to 40 ft. Introduced in 1840. 
Propagated by grafting on the com- 
mon yew. 
The wood is dense, and closely 
grained, and in old trees of a reddish 
colour, like that of Juniperus vir 
giniina. It is of a stfong and peculiar 
odour, especially when bruised or 
1755. T. taxifolia. 1756. 
burnt, and hence, in the country where it grows, it is frequently called 
Stinking Cedar. It makes excellent rails, and is not liable to the attacks 
of insects. (Ann. Nat. Hist., vol.i. p. 129.) Canterbury Nursery. 
Genus III. 
aa 
int 
SALISBU'RIA Smith. Tue Sauissuria, Lm. Syst. Monce‘cia Polyandria. 
Identification. Lin. Trans., 3. p. 330. ; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 472. ; Horn. Hort. Reg. Haff. 2. p. 903. 
ynoneym Ginkgo of Kemp Li and others 
Derivation. Named in honour of R. A. Salisbury, F.R.S. L.S., &c., a distinguished botanist. 
Ginkgo is the aboriginal name in Japan. 
Gen, Char. Male flowers in tapering, decurved, bractless catkins, which are 
borne several from one bud. Flowers many ina catkin, each appearing as a 
stamen only, and consisting of a short filament-like stalk.— Female flowers 
borne from a bud, from which leaves are also apheraer: and on peduncles, 
either single or several on the pedicels of a branched peduncle. Flowers 
seated in ashallow cup, formed of the dilated tip of the peduncle or pedicel, 
