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D. III. [Dockyard ; Mr. Keddell, Banks, Fl. part 1. No more recent 

 record.] Among grass for a yard or two on a bank near gardens 

 at King's Tamerton, where I have known it for the past fifteen 

 years, but always in very small quantity. It grows near Sapo- 

 naria officinalis, with double flowers, and one or two other 

 garden outcasts. 

 Fu'st record : Banks, 1830. 



ILICACE^. 



ILEX, L. 



158. I. Aquifolium, L. The Holly ; 'Holm.' 



Native ; m woods, copses, and hedges, also in hollows and shel- 

 tered spots about rocks m the open moor}^ parts of the country. 

 Very common. May. Area general. 



Some fine examples of this tree gi-ow in Warleigh Wood (District in.); 

 also in the vale below Crownliill Down, near Newnham Park (iv. ) ; and 

 in the woods in the Yealm vale between Lee Mill Bridge and Weston 

 Mill (v.). 



In Lyte's Dodoen's Herbal, the first edition of which was published in 

 1578, we read, "They use the small branches and leaves of holme to 

 cleanse and sweepe chimneyes," and the practice certainly continued in 

 rural places around Plymouth until quite recently, and may still prevail 

 in some parts of the country. A stout holly-stick, with the branches cut 

 off at the length of 6 or 8 inches, is sometimes fixed by cottagers outside 

 theu' houses to dry fish on. 



CELASTRACE.^. 



EUONYMUS, L. 



159. E. europseus, L. Spindle Tree; ''Skewer WoocV 



Native ; in hedges, copses, and woods. Very common. May, 

 June, 

 c. I. Polbathick. Hessenford. St. Stephens. Landrake. Pillaton. 

 II. Between Millbrook and Crafthole. Botus Fleming. St. Dominick. 

 D. III. Warleigh Wood ; Dr. Jacob; Butshead Wood ; Banks, FL part 3. 

 Milehouse, and between Pennycomequick and Stoke Damerel. 

 Buckland Monachorum. 

 IV. Furzehill Lane, and hedges elsewhere close to Plymouth. Be- 

 tween Pomphlet and Elburton. Newnham. Bickleigh. 

 V. Wembury; some fine bushes by the Yealm estuary. Kitley. 

 Near Slade. 



