o44 CONIFER J.. 



powder. The wood is finegrained and compact, of a reddish hue, very- light an l 

 durable. 



3. J. s.vbixa, L Savin. A widely spreading or almost prostrate shrub, native 

 of South Europe, is sometimes found in cultivation. tJ. Virgiuiana, V-ar. huiniiip, 

 liook.) 



Sub-order hi. TAXINEJ3. Yew Family. 



Fertile flowers solitary, consisting of a naked OTule r 

 ripening into a drupe-like or nut-like fruit. 



8. TAXUS. Tourn. Yew. 



The classical name. 



Flowers mostly dioecious, axillary from scaly ' Sta- 



mens 8 to 10, monodolphous ; am .rate, G to B- 



oelled. Fertile elowers solitary, scaly-braeted at the 

 base, consisting of a single ovule, becoming in fruit a fleshy 

 1-seeded drupe. Cotyledons 2. — Trees or shrubs, i 

 evergreen, fiat mucronate, rigid, scattered 2-ranktd leaves. 



T. Canadensis, Willd. American T ■. 



Stems diffusely spreading; leaves linear, with slightly revoluie margins; sterile 

 receptacle gl obose. * 



Moist shaded hanks and hills, near streams. April. A small evergreen str 

 or prostrate bush, with the general aspect of a dwarf hemlock spruce. Leaves 

 Dearly an inch long, green on bcth sides, arranged in J op] osite rows on tie sides 

 trf the branchleta. JDrujpss oval, concave or oicn at the summit^ red zmA 

 khan mature. 



