448 CUPULIFERAE 



2. Ock. Near Uffington. 



3. Pang. In Beech Wood, but not common, Lousley in Russell's Cat. 



Pangbourn. Hawkridge Wood. Bucklebury. Bradfield. 



4. Kennet. Mortimer, Tiifnail. Greenham. Newbury Wash. South- 



cote Lane. Weston. Between Inkpen and Hungerford. 



5. Loddon. Heath Pool. Penny. Early, Tvfnail. Park Place, Stanton. 



Arborfield, Tayler. Bearwood. Hurst. Ruscombe. Stubbing's 

 Heath. Haines Hill. Sonning. Winkfield. Remenham. 

 Wargrave. Bisham. Hall Place. Bowsey Hill, native. Ascot. 

 Sandhurst. Bracknell. Bulmarsh. Bisham. Cookham. 

 Windsor Park. 

 Some of our trees belong to the var. ijrovincialis, Gay, in which the 

 middle lobe of the cupule has a few large teeth on each side. 



Carpinus Letulus is recorded for all the bordering counties except 

 East Gloucestershire. 



CORYIjUS, Linn. Gen. n. 953 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 347). 

 C. Avellana, Linn. Sp. PI. 998 (1753). Hazel. 



Top. Bot. 371. Syme, E. B. viii. 170, t. 1292. Nyman, 663. Fl. Oxf. 268. 



Native. Sylvestral. Woods, coppices, hedges, &c. Abundant in the 



lanes and woods on the Chalk. Shrub or tree. January 20-April. 



First record. The prevailing wood of the county is Hazel, Lyson's Magna 



Brit. 1806. Hazel nuts are found in the Peat beds of Newbury, 



Geology of Newbury, 25, 1864. With Erysiphe guttata. Link, on it in 



Bagley Wood in 1826, Baxter, Stirp. Crypt. Ox. n. 96. 



It grows at an elevation of 800 feet on Gibbet Hill, and very 



large trees are found in hedges, &c., at the base of the range. 



A form with the leaves more deeply cut, /. incisa, has been seen near 

 Upper Basildon and on the Lambourn woodlands. 

 Corylus is found in all the bordering counties. 



QUERCUS, Linn. Gen. n. 949 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 394). 

 Q. Sobur, Linn. Sp. PI. 996 (1753). Oak. 



Q. pedunculata, Ehrh. Arb. n. 77. Beitr. v. 161. Q. vulgaris, Gerard, 



1 156. Robur, Virgil. 



Top. Bot. 368. Syme, E. B. viii. 145, t. 1288. Nyman, 660. Fl. Oxf. 266. 



Native. Woods, hedges, coppices. Common in the lowland woods. 



Tree. April-May. 



Among the early references to the Oak as occurring in Berkshire 



may be quoted the following : — 



There is an old tale goes that Heme the Hunter, 

 Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest, 

 Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, 

 Walk round about an oak. 



The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare. 



