Note AB — THE YEW-TREE.
Reading edition
Generic characters. Barren flowers in oval catkins, with crowded, peltate scales, bearing 3 to 8 anther-cells. Stamens numerous. Style 1. Anthers peltate, with several lobes. Fertile flowers scaly below. Ovule surrounded at the base by a ring, which becomes a fleshy cup-shaped disk surrounding the seed.