256 VIBUKNACEAE 



S. EbiUus, Linn. Sp, PI. 269 (1753). Banewort, Dwarf Elder. 



Top. Bot. 207. Syme, E. B. iv. 201, t. 638. Nyman, 321. Fl. Oxf. 146. 



Denizen or native. Septal. Hedges. Very local and rare. Shrub. 

 July-September. 



First record. At Seckworth (Seacourt) is aboundance of Daneworth 

 growing. This Daneworth (say people"^ groweth from man's blood. 

 And that the Danes lived here, is probably true. For they fought 

 aganst Wytham Castle, standing upon the hill not above halfe 

 a mile from Seckworth, T. Hearne, Liber Niger Scacc. ed. 2, 591, 1771. 

 It groweth on ye side of Botley Hills hard by the path which 

 leades into Witome (Wytham), MS. in Lyte's Herball, 1660. It is not 

 unknowne but that great store of Daneworth and Walwort groweth 

 at (Seckworth), being testimonies embraced by most, of the effusion 

 of men's blood (and particularly of Danes' blood) whersoever great 

 quantities of it growes, Antiquities of the City of Oxford, Anthony Wood, 

 326 ( 1661-6), ed. Kev. A. Clark, 1889. 



1. Isis. Seacourt. Wytham Wood, MS. in Lyte and Hearne. It still 



occurs at Wytham. 



2. Ock. On a bank and by the side of the road near Cholsey 



Churchyard, Lousley in Russell's Cat. 1839. 

 S. Ebulus is reported from all the bordering counties. 



VIBURNUM, Linn. Gen. n. 332 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 377). 



V. Opulus, Linn. Sp. PI. 268 (1753). Guelder Rose, Water Elder. 



Top. Bot. 208. Syme, E. B. iv. 202, t. 639. Nyman, 320. Fl. Oxf. 145. 



Native. Sylvestral. Moist woods, stream-sides, &c. Widely dis- 

 tributed, except in the heathy tracts and uplands, and too common 

 to need a list of localities. Shrub. May-June, and sometimes 

 again in August, as in 1893, 4, and 5. ' 



First record. V. opuhis, Mr. Bicheno, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. A seedling 



specimen from Berkshire is in Sir J. E . Smith's Herbarium, dated 1810. 



A form, in which a considerable number of the flowers were neuter, 



lias been noticed in Aldermaston woods. When they are entirely 



neuter it is the var. roseum, Linn. Sp. PI. 1. c, which is the Guelder 



Rose so often ciiltivated. 



Viburnum Opulus is a most beautiful shrub, whether in flower, or in 



fruit, or showing its rich crimson and purple foliage in the autumn ; 



it occurs in all the bordering counties. 



V. Iiantana, Linn. Sp. PI. 268 (1753). Wayfaring Tree. 



Lantana, site Viburnum, Ger. Em. 1490. 

 Top. Bot. 209. Syme, E. B. iv. 203, t. 640. Nyman, 320. Fl. Oxf. 145. 

 Native. Septal. Hedges, thickets, &c. Common and widely dis- 

 tributed, especially abundant on calcareous soil, rare on the 



