. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 185 4. T. nucifera, Sieb. & Zucc. {Tumion nudferum, Greene). Japanese T. Fig. 26. Tree usually 30 feet, but occasionally 80 feet high, with spreading branches, forming a compact head, sometimes shrubby; bark grayish-brown: leaves lanceolate, acuminate, rigid and spiny-pointed, very dark green above, with 2 white impressed bands beneath, ^-l}4 inches long and ys~y& inch broad: fruit obovoi
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 185 4. T. nucifera, Sieb. & Zucc. {Tumion nudferum, Greene). Japanese T. Fig. 26. Tree usually 30 feet, but occasionally 80 feet high, with spreading branches, forming a compact head, sometimes shrubby; bark grayish-brown: leaves lanceolate, acuminate, rigid and spiny-pointed, very dark green above, with 2 white impressed bands beneath, ^-l}4 inches long and ys~y& inch broad: fruit obovoid- oblong, about 1 inch long, green, faintly tinged and striped with purple. Southern and cen- tral Japan.—First uitroduced to England about 1764 and again by Siebold in 1831 to the Netherlands; to this country probably about 1860. A hand- some tree with dark green lustrous leaves, hardy as far north as Massachu- setts. The seeds are edible; the strong and close-grained wood is durable in water and is used in Japan for making water-pails and for Torreya nucifera. 5. TAXUS, L. YEW Evergreen trees or shrubs with reddish or reddish-brown scaly bark; branchlets irregularly alternate; winter-buds with imbricate scales: leaves linear, pale or yellowish-green beneath, usually 2-ranked, without resin- ducts: flowers usually dioecious, solitary and axillary, rarely terminal, small, appearing in early spring; staminate flowers forming globose stalked heads, composed of 4-8 stamens each, with 3-8 anther-cells attached to the peltate connective; fertile flowers consisting of a single terminal ovide with several bracts at the base: seed a bony nut surrounded or almost inclosed by a fleshy cup-shaped scarlet disk, cotyledons 2, green. (Taxus is the ancient Latin name of the yew.)—The genus is distributed throughout the northern hemisphere; in America it extends to central Mexico and in Asia to the Philippines and the Malayan Archipelago. Eight species may be distinguished;
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