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advice and suggestions, particularly as to the best mode of 

 safely transmitting the seeds to this country, advice which 

 proved not only eminently practical, but also singularly suc- 

 cessful. 



Taxus Lindleyana. 



T. foliis bi-seriatis, linearibus, planis sparsis ; baccis ut 

 in Taxo baccata hibernica ; seminibus fere globosis ; ramis 

 longissimis etpendulis. 



Habitat in California, circa lat. 40° ad 41° Bor. 



Leaves two-ranked, linear, flat, of smaller size and narrower 

 than in the common British yew (T. baccata, L.), and the 

 prickle at the end of the leaf is more developed. Berries 

 exactly like those of the Irish yew, growing on the under-side 

 of the branch. Seeds nearly globose, putty-coloured. Branches 

 exceedingly long and pendulous. Wood almost as elastic as 

 whalebone — a property which has been turned to useful ac- 

 count by the Indians, who make their bows of it. 



As I have only an imperfect specimen of the branch and 

 seed, I am sorry that I cannot give more than the above very 

 meagre description. 



The tree is from 40 to 30 feet high. One which my brother 

 measured was 50 inches in circumference at 5 feet from the 

 ground. Another at the same height measured 5 feet 10 inches 

 in circumference. It was found growing on the sides of a 

 glen under the shade of larger trees which grow higher up. 

 It would consequently make a good filler-up where ordinary 

 underwood does not readily grow. 



I have named it after Dr Lindley, whose courtesy and kind- 

 ness, both now and formerly, in examining for me, and re- 

 porting upon specimens sent from abroad, I take this oppor- 

 tunity of gratefully acknowledging. 



It is perhaps unnecessary for me to say, that in the fore- 

 going paper, all the information (other than which I could 

 acquire from the actual inspection of the specimens themselves), 

 was obtained from my brother ; and I regret that a more en- 

 grossing occupation should have at present prevented him 

 from describing these interesting novelties himself, a regret 



