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fl. scaly below. Style 0. Ovule surrounded at the base by 
- a ring which becomes a fleshy cupsbaped disk surrounding 
the seed. 
Tr. II. VUPKESSINEJ:. Male tl. in catkins. Anth. 4—7, 
inserted on the edge of the subpeltate scales. Fern. fl. few, 
in a small catkin, erect ; no carpellary scale. 
2. .JuNiPEKUS. Anth. 4 — 7, 1-celled, inserted on the lower 
edge of the scales. Scales of the fern, catkin imbricate, 
lower ones barren. Ovules 3, surrounded by a 3-tid fleshy 
involucre formed of the 3 uppermost connate scales of the 
catkin. 
Tr. III. ABIETINEjE. F1. in catkins. Anth. 2, 1-celled, 
adnate to the underside of the scales. Fern. fi. a scalelike 
open ovary in the axil of a membranous scale, bearing two 
naked ovules pointing towards the axis [or, perhaps, fem. 
H. in pairs on an axillary scale.] Fr. winged. 
3. PiNUS. Male catkins crowded, racemose. Scales of the 
cone thickened and angular at the end. Fr. with a crus- 
taceous coat. 
Trilje I. Taxineoi. 
1. Tax'us Linn. Yew. 
1. T. bacaUa (L.) ; 1. 2-ranked crowded linear acute, fl. axil- 
lary sessile. — E. B. 746. — A low tree, trunk often attaining a 
very considerable bulk. Fr. roundish. — T.fastigiata (Liudl.) 
is not even a permanent variety. — Mountainous woods and 
limestone cliffs. T. III. IV. E. S. I. 
Tribe II. Gupressinea;. 
2. Jxinip'erus Linn. Juniper. 
1. ./. communis (L.) ; 1. 3 in each whorl spreading linear sub- 
uiate mucronate keeled exceeding the ripe fruit. i>. lllu. — 
Fruticose, erect. L. with a broad fiat shallow channel above, 
the keel beneath with a slender furrow. Berries black, tinged 
with blue, about half the length of the leaves.' — Dry hills, 
especially on a calcareous soil. Sh. V. E. S. I. 
1 A form intermediaie betwei'n Sp. 1 and 2 is recorded by Mr Bennett from 
Bcarp, Outer Hebrides, under the name var. J. intermedia, Scliur.— H. & J. G. 
