124 ILICACEAE 



Top. Bot. 274. Syme, E. B. ii. 219, t. 316. Nyman, 144. Baxt. t. 262. 

 Fl. Oxf. 72. 



Native, Sylvestral. Woods and hedges. Tree. Locally common. 

 April-August. 



First record. With Opegrapha elegans, Hook., and Thelotrema lepacUnum, on 

 the bark, and Eustegia ilicis (Stegia), Ceuthospora phascidioidts (Pha- 

 cidium ilicis), and Sphaeria ilicis (Diplodia), on the dead leaves in 

 Bagley Wood, Baxter's Phaen. Bot. 262, 1838 ; also Baxter's Stirp. Ox. 

 1825. There is a MS. note in BiU. Brit. Mus. by Mr. M. Harding^ 

 circa 1680, stating that the variegated holly occurs about Oxford. 



1. Isis. Wytham. Pusey. Appleton, together with an entire- 



leaved form (/. inermis). 



2. Ock. Bagley, Baxter. Boar's Hill. Tubney. Kingston Bagpuze. 



Frilford. 



3. Pang. Streatley, Pamplin, De la Bere, Pangbourn. A variegated 



form near Cold Ash Common. Hawkridge Wood. Ashamp- 

 stead. Bucklebury Common. Bradfield. An entire-leaved 

 form in Oarebury Wood. Bucklebury. Tidmarsh. Tilehurst. 

 Fence Wood. Frilsham. Yattendon. 



4. Kennet. Inkpen. Very fine about Hampstead Marshall. Green- 



ham Common. Crookham Common. Aldermaston. Burghfield. 

 Mortimer. Silchester amphitheatre. Wickham. Snelsmore. 



5. Loddon. Wellington Coll. List. Common about Park Place, 



Stanton. Ashley Hill. Stubbing's Heath. Bearwood. Early. 

 Wargrave, Kisely. Finchampstead. Bagshot. Ascot. Sun- 

 ningdale. Windsor Park (trees 40 feet high'. Ambarrow. 

 Wokingham. Swinley. Binfield. Sandhurst. Cranbourne 

 Park. Abundant on Warren Kow Common. 

 Ilex aquifolium is found in all the bordering counties. 



CELASTEACEAE, Lincll. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 119 (1836). 

 EUONYMUS, Linn. Gen. n. 240 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 388). 

 i:. europaeus, Linn. Sp. PI. 197 a (1753'). Spindle Tree, Skewer-icood. 

 E. vulgaris, Park. 241 (1640). Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i. 167 (1772), and 

 Miller, Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). E. Theophrasti, Gerard, 1284. 



Top. Bot. loi. Syme, E. B. ii. 224, t. 317. Nyman, 144. Baxt. t. 123. 



Fl. Oxf. 71. 

 Native. Septal. Hedges, woods, and open bushy places, locally 



common, especially on the Oolite and Chalk. Its beautifully 



coloured fruits are very ornamental in many of our hedgerows in 



the autumn. Shrub. May- June. 

 First record. At Cumnor, Mr. Baxter's MSS. 1823. Published in Russell's 



Cat. 1839. 



