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* 2. T. (b.) canadensis Willd. The Canada, or North American, Yew. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 856. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 647. ; Smith in Reel's Cycl. 



No. 2. 

 Synonyme. T. b. minor Mich. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 245. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves linear, 2-ranked, crowded, revolute. Male flow- 

 ers globose, always solitary. (Smith.) Michaux describes this species as of 

 humbler growth than the European yew, of spreading habit, and with 

 smaller flowers and fruit ; and Pursh says that, under the shade of other 

 trees, it does not rise above 2 ft. or 3 ft. high. Willdenow says that it is 

 smaller and narrower in all its parts, and that it does not alter by culture ; 

 yet that a specific difference is hard to be detected. The leaves, however, 

 are narrower, smaller, and revolute at the margin ; and the male flowers are 

 always solitary in the bosoms of the leaves. It is a native of North Ame- 

 rica, in Canada, and on the banks of the Antictem, in Maryland ; growing 

 only in shady rocky places, and flowering in March and April. It was in- 

 troduced in 1800 ; and there are plants of it in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, and in various nurseries ; but it is obviously only a variety of the 

 common yew. 



