33^ OLEACEAE 



Native. Paludal. Ditches and trenches in watery and marshy 



situations. Very local and rather rare. P. June-August. 

 First recorded by Mr. W. Delamotte in Baxter's Phaen. Bot. n. ii, 1834. 



1. Isis. Wytham Wood, on the south side, and in Merley Wood. 



2. Ock. Marcham, Walker, 1873. Cothill Moor. Kather plentiful 



in a trench by the railway between Kadley and Abingdon. In 



a marsh between Cothill and Abingdon. 

 5. Loddon. In ditches in the Park, and in the entrenchments at 



Caesar's Camp, Easthampstead, Delamotte. 

 S. Valerandi is recorded for all the bordering counties except Bucks. 



OLEACEAE, Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. i (1830). 



FRAXINUS, Linn. Gen. n. 1026 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 343). 

 F, excelsior, Linn. Sp. PI. 1057 (1753), and of C. B. Pin. 416. Ash. 

 Top. Bot. 275. Syme, E. B. vi. 56, t. 902. Nyman, 495. Fl. Oxf. 193. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods, hedges, thickets, parks, &c. Rather 



common and generally distributed, except on the heathy ground 



of the south-west. Tree. April-May. 

 First record. Tl:te prevailing wood of the county of Berks is Hazel 



occasionally mixed Avith Ash, Lyson's Magna Brit. 1806. 

 Ash flourishes most in groves and plantations, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 

 1809. 



Sphaeria concentrica, Bolt, (and other Fungi), on the . . . Ash about 

 Oxford, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. n. 382. 



The Ash is too frequent in Berkshire to need a list of localities. 

 That it is a native tree of the county is proved by the frequent use of 

 the name as a prefix for the names of villages, &c. ; for instance, 

 Ashampstead, Ashridge. Ashbury. The name is also shown in Cold 

 Ash Common, Wigmore Ash, &c. 



' The invincible King Offa built that terrible fortress or castle on 

 the said hill (Wytham), not farre from the place where the great Ashe 

 (which is a land mark)i standeth,' Ajifiquitiex of the City of Oxford, Anthony 

 Wood, ed. Rev. A. Clark, 50 (1889). Very beautiful specimens of the 

 Ash-tree are still found in Wytham. 



Fraxinus is found in all the bordering counties. 



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lilGUSTRUM, Linn. Gen. 18 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 367). 

 Ii. vulgare, Linn. Sp. PI. 7 (1753). Privet, Prim. 

 L. germanicum, C. B. Pin. 475. Ligustrum, Fuchs. 

 Top. Bot. 274. Syme, E. B. vi. 60, t. 904. Nyman, 494. Fl. Oxf. 193. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Thickets, Avoods, hedges, &c. Common on the 

 Chalk, and scattered throughout the county. Shrub. May- 

 August. 



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