CAPtPiNus 447 



First record. Tlie Common Alder. About Coleman's Moor, MS. in Bay's 

 Cat. about 1680, Sunningliill, Sir Jos. Banks in Herb. Brit. Mus. 

 1773. Recorded in Lyson's Magna Brit. 1806, where it is stated 

 that the prevailing wood of the county is Hazel with . . . Alder. 

 Betula alnus, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. Alnus glutinosa with Dothidea 

 alnea, Grev., and EnjsijyJie penicillata, var. alni, Link {Microsphaeria 

 penicillata), on it about Oxford, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. 193, 1837. 



1. Isis. Wytham. Appleford. 



2. Ock. Bagley Wood. Marcham. Cothill. Eadley. Shippon. 



3. Pang. Streatley, PamjjHn. Tidmarsh. Pangbourn. Standford 



Dingley. Bradfield. Fence Wood. 



4. Kennet. Greenham, Rupert Jones. Near Newbury, Mrs. Russell, 



Newbury Cat. 1839. Mortimer, Tvfnail. Aldermaston, Burgh- 

 field. Kintbury. Bagnor. Inkpen. Templeton. Hungerford. 



5. Loddon. Sunninghill, Sir J. Banks. Coleman's Moor, MS. in 



Ray. About Park Place, Stanton. Sandhurst. Ambarrow. 

 Finchampstead. Blackwater. Swallowfield. Arborfield. Long 

 Moor. . Twyford, Bisham. Ruscombe. Windsor Park. Virginia 

 Water. Frogmore. Wokingham, 

 That the Alder is a native of Berkshire is proved by the remains of 

 it which was found in the peat beds at Newbury. 



The Berkshire Alders have been rendered classical by the lines of 

 Pope in his poem on Windsor Forest, in which he describes 

 'The Loddon slow with verdant Alders crowned.' 



' The wood of the Alder, thovigh not much valued in most places, is of 

 considerable imj)ortance about Newbury. The Alder furnishes handles to 

 rakes, prongs, mops, besoms, &c. Many hundreds of dozens of prongs and 

 rakes are annually sent from the neighbourhood of Newbury into the west 

 of England. At eight or at most nine years' growth, the Alder is available 

 for that purpose.' 3favor, Agr. Berks, 1809. 



Few pleasanter sights can be seen than that which is to be obtained by 

 rowing up the quiet Loddon, where the Alders fringe the stream and in fact 

 partly cover it, and contrast effectively with the Willow, while the banks 

 are covered with a rich river-side vegetation. 



Alnus is found in all the bordering counties. 



CARPINUS, Linn. Gen. n. 952 ^Tournefort, Inst. t. 348). 



C. Betulus, Linn. Sp. Pi. 998 (1753). Hornbeam. 



Betulus sive Carpinus, Ger. 1296. 



Top. Bot. 371. Syme, E. B. viii. 176, 1. 1293. Nyman, 663. Fl. Oxf. 268. 

 Native. Hedges, coppices, possibly native on the Chalk in the south- 

 east of the county, probably planted elsewhere. Tree. April-May. 

 First record. C. betulus, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Near Cumnor. Bablock Hythe. Appleton. Near Shriven- 

 ham. Wytham. 



