The Ground Hemlock.
Taxus canadensis, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iv. p. 856. Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. vol. ii. p. 647.—Diœcia Monadelphia. Coniferæ, Juss.
The Ground Hemlock, or Canadian Yew, is abundant on the declivities of the mountains from Maryland to Maine. It is a low tree, or rather bush, often almost prostrate, and frequently hanging from the rocks. The leaves are linear, distichous, revolute at the margin. The berries, which are oblong or globular, and of a pale red colour, are eatable.