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a 2. T. (b.) cax ade'nsis Willd. The Canada, or North American, Yew.

Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl. f 4. p. 856.; Fursh FI. Amer. Sept, 2. p. 647.; Smith in Rees’s Cycl.No. 2.

Synonyme. T. 1). minor Mich. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 245.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves linear, 2-ranked, crowded, revolute. Male flow-ers globose, always solitary. (Smith.) Michaux describes this species as of’humbler growth than the European yew, of spreading habit, and withsmaller flowers and fruit; and Pursh says that, under the shade of othertrees, it does not rise above 2 ft. or 3 ft.-high. Willdenow says that it issmaller and narrower in all its parts, and that it does not alter by culture;yet that a specific difference is hard to be detected. The leaves, however,are narrower, smaller, and revolute at the margin; and the male flowers arealways solitary in the bosoms of the leaves. It is a native of North Ame-rica, in Canada, and on the banks of the Antictein, in Maryland; growingonly in shady rocky places, and flowering in March and April. It was in-troduced in 1800 ; and there are plants of it in the Horticultural Society’sGarden, and in various nurseries ; but it is obviously only a variety of thecommon yew.