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Germ. t. 538 ; Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 44 ; Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. 

 t. 128 ; Nutt. N. Am. Sylv. t. 108 ; Eichl. in Engl, and Prantl. 

 Natiirl. Pflf. ii. p. 112 ; Willkomm, Forstl. Fl. p. 270 ; Loud. Arbor, 

 et Frut. Brit. iv. 2066 ; Yeitch, Man. Conif . 291 ; Beissner, Nadel- 

 holzk. 166. 



Flowers dioecious, sometimes monoecious, axillary. 

 Fruit solitary, and one-seeded. 

 Disc a fleshy open cup, and viscid. 



Seeds nut-like, with a bony shell, free, and exposed on the upper 

 part. 



Leaves linear, decurrent, and alternate. 

 Cotyledons two, short. 



Name derived either from taxis, arrangement, from the leaves 

 being placed on the branchlets like the teeth of a comb, or from 

 toxicum, poison, the common Yew being poisonous, or from toxon, 

 a bow, the wood being much used for that purpose. 



The English name Yew is said to come from the Celtic iiv, green. 



All evergreen trees, or bushes, found in the temperate and cool 

 temperate parts of Europe, Asia, and America. 



T. brevifolia, Nutt. Sylv. iii. 86, t. 108. T. baccata, Hook. 

 Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 167. T. Lindleyana, Murr. in Edinb. New Phil. 

 Journ. 1855, 294. T. Boursierii, Carr. Rev. Hort. 1854, 228, and 

 Conif. ed. 2, 739. T. occidentalis, Nutt. I.e. 



Habitat. — Queen Charlotte Island and the valley of the Skeena 

 River ; south through the coast ranges of British Columbia, through 

 Western, and the mountain ranges of Eastern, Washington Territory and 

 Oregon to the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains of Northern 

 Montana (Canby and Sargent) ; through the Californian coast ranges to 

 the Bay of Monterey, and along the western slopes of the Sierra 

 Nevadas to about latitude 37° N. 



A tree 60-80 feet in height, with a trunk 1-2 feet in diameter, 

 or towards its eastern limits in Idaho and Montana much smaller, 

 often reduced to a low shrub ; rare ; low, rich woods and borders 

 of streams, reaching its greatest development in Western Oregon, 

 Washington Territory, and British Columbia (C. S. Sargent). 



T. baccata, L. Spec. PI. 1472. 'o^lXos, Theophr. Hist. Plant, 

 iii. 4, 6, 7. rj rd^os, Galen. Simpl. 8 ; Diosc. iv. 80. Taxus, Plin. 



Hist. Nat. xvi. 20, 23 ; Matthiol. Yalgris. 444 ; Bauhin, Hist. i. 

 241 ; English Botany, tab. 746 ; Schkuhr, tab. 339 ; Rich. Conif. 

 19, t. 2; Loud. Arbor. Brit. iv. 2066, f. 1981-91, and Encycl. 

 of Trees, 939, f. 1751-52 ; D. C. Fl. Fr. iii. 279 ; Desf. Hist. Arbr. 

 ii. 554 ; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 167 ; Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg. Phan. 

 xi. 292, and Atl. PI. 132, f . 2 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 242 ; Lindl. and 

 Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 227 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 52 ; P. D. Diet. 

 Univ. d'Hist. Nat. vii. 20 ; Carr. Tr. Gen. des Conif. 517 ; Gord. 



