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3. Pang. Wild near Aldworth, Mavor. Plentiful in Beech Wood, 



and many other woods and hedges about Hampstead Norris, 

 Compton, and Aldworth, Lousley in Russell's Cat. Streatley, 

 Pamplin. De la Bare, Pangbourn, Tufnaih Aldworth Church- 

 yard. Native in Ashampstead Woods, Hampstead Norris, 

 Basildon, Tilehurst, &c. 



4. Kennet. Near Farnborough. Sandleford. Inkpen. Enborne. 



Burghfield. 



5. Iioddon. Caesar's Camp. Bearwood. A small tree on Hurst 



Church, and also on the tower of Shottesbrooke Church. Park 



Place. Culham Court Woods. Bisham. Ruscombe Churchyard, 



an old specimen. 



Var. T. fastigiata (Lindley, Syn. Br. Fl. 241, 1829, as a species), is 



the Irish Yew, which is only known as a cultivated plant in the county, 



as in chxxrchyards and ornamental grounds. 



The Aldworth Yew measures (according to Loudon, Arboretum, 1838) 

 27 feet 3 inches at five feet from the ground. In 1760 it was 27 feet 

 in circumference, see Hewett's Hist, Compton. At Hampstead Marshall, 

 says Loudon, there are the remains of a very old yew, the trunk of 

 which was 47 feet in circumference a few years ago, but in 1836 was 

 only 37 feet. 

 The Yew is recorded for all the bordering counties except E. Gloucester. 



PITTUS, Linn. Gen. n. 956 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 355). 

 *P. sylvestris, Linn. Sp. PI. looi (1753"*, and of C. B. Pin. Scotch Fir. 

 Top. Bot. 379. Syme, E. B. viii. 264, t. 1380. Nyman, 675. Baxt. t. 389. 



Fl. Oxf. 278. 

 Once native, now replanted. Sylvestral. Dry heathy woods. Locally 



abundant in the Kennet and Loddon districts. Tree. May. 

 First record. P. sylvestris, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. 2. Ock. Occurs as a planted tree in small numbers in the 

 districts of the Isis and Ock, as at Wytham, Cothill, Cumnor 

 Hurst, Boar's Hill, &c. 



3. Pang. Very common at Hampstead Norris, growing by thousands 



from self-sown seeds in Fling and Courage Commons, &c. , 

 Lonshy in Russell's Cat. Bucklebury Common. Cold Ash Common. 

 Hermitage. Ashampstead. Oaro Hill Wood. Moulsford 

 Downs, &c. 



4. Kennet. Pine Cones are found in the Peat beds of the Kennet, 



Geol. Neicb. (1864) 25. Mortimer, seedlings plentiful, Tufnail. 

 Burghfield. Enborne. Greenham. Aldermaston. Inkpen. 

 Wickliam. Farnborough. Tilcombe Green. 



5. Loddon. Park Place. Bisham Wood. Ashley Hill. Stubbing's 



Heath. Early. Bearwood. Abundant over the south-western 



