Üofamber, 
TAXUS BACCATA. 
NAT. CLASS,-DICOTYLEDONES ; ORDER,-CONIFERÆ. ART. CLASS,- 
DIŒCIA ; ORDER,—MONADELPHIA. 
This evergreen tree never attains to a great height, 
but, as the trunk increases very slowly, and the wood 
is extremely solid and durable, it arrives at a great 
âge, and is truly the vétéran of European végétation. 
There are some Yews in Great Britain which are 
probably not less than between 2,000 and 3,000 years 
old. The leaves are linear, acute, and ranged in two 
ranks. The flowers are of two kinds, seated on sepa- 
rate individuals, in the axils of the leaves. Those 
which bear the pollen are ranged in small oval 
catkins, the bases of which are scaly; and they bear 
several stamens in the upper part, which hâve peltate 
