CO WILD TLOWEKS OF 



pool, which has twelve or thirteen, several most luxu- 

 riantly cinctured with ivy, and one whose monstrous 

 bole is thirty feet seven inches in circumference. 

 The Llaufoist Yew, in the same county, is a noble 

 tree, and in the church-yard of Mallwyd, near Dinas 

 Mowddy, Merionethshire, are several remarkable 

 time-honoured individuals, with excessively distended 

 branches, spreading forty feet from the bole on every 

 side, in singularly gloomy grandeur. One of the 

 islands iu the lake of Loch Lomond is stated to bear 

 a wood of several thousand Yews, a circumstance 

 perhaps unparalleled in Europe. A singular aspect 

 is also presented in the church-yard of Painswick, 

 Gloucestershire, from the great number of Yew-trees 

 growing there, though of small size. 



The Yew occasionally presents itself in very curious 

 positions, from its berries having been carried off and 

 dropt or hidden by birds. I have more than once 

 seen it as an epiphyte upon the willow, and one of 

 considerable bulk was a few years since growing 

 witliin an oak, near Ribbesford, Worcestershire, and, 

 from its size and the wrenching power it had exerted 

 upon the broken trunk of its sustain er, had evidently 

 grown there for a period exceeding a century. The 

 intertwining of the contrasting foliage of the two 

 trees had a most remarkable effect. The Ordnance 

 Surveyors have even recorded the circumstance, and 

 "the Yew-in-the-Oak," appears marked in their 

 maps; unfortunately a violent storm in 1846 upset 

 the oak. 



But we have been blown into a digression by the 

 force of the wind, and must resume the point in hand. 

 Four wild flowers at least may always be found in 



