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Occurs in all the districts, and is now so well estalDlislied, through 

 springing up readily from self-sown seed, that it Avould be considered a 

 native tree, but for the historical evidence to the contrary. It looks as if 

 it were indigenous on wooded banks above Sconner Lake (District i.), 

 and in the Tavy valley (in.)- A small tree of the variety with varie- 

 gated leaves grew some years ago on a bank below the Dartmoor 

 tramway, near Crabtree, but was destroyed about 1863, on the erection of 

 Crabtree Fort. I have found the same variety growing on the side of a 

 hedge-bank at Alderpit, Egg Buckland, where it must have come from 

 seed. At Hessenford it occm-s in a hedge, where it is likely to have been 

 planted. 



162. A. campestre, L. Common Majjle. 



Native ; in hedge-rows, and rarely in other bushy spots. Rather 

 rare, and decidedly local, ]May. 

 c. II. Maker ; Keys, Fl. ii. 65. On tlie edge of a low cliff in Mount 



Edgcumbe Park. 

 D. III. Near Tamerton ! ; ibid. Several bushes on a cliff by the marshes 

 enclosed from the Tamar at Ernesettle. Hedge-row near 

 King's Tamerton, and at Pennycross. St. Budeaux. Between 

 Lophill and 3Iilton. 

 IV. Near Plymstock ! ; BIr. Sconce, Banks, Fl. part 8. A bush in a 

 hedge between the turnpike road and Lower Compton. Bick- 

 leigh Vale. 

 V. In many hedges in this District ; about Battisborough, between 

 Newton Ferrers and Holbeton, in plenty between Yealm Bridge 

 and Flete, near Gnaton. Langdon. In a wood between Weston 

 31111 and Lee Mill Bridge. Near Lynham. 

 VI. Near Ermuigton ! ; Keys, ibid. In hedges between Kingston 

 and Ringmore. Modbury. Near Ugborough. Between Ivy- 

 bridge and Cornwood. 

 At some of the stations an introduction, but seems a native m Districts 

 III., v., and VI. ; possibly also at Mount Edgcumbe (ii.). 

 First record : Banks, 1830. 



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163. IT. europseus, L. Common Furze; ''Fuzz.'' 



Native ; on commons, in waste spots, copses, and on hedge-banks. 

 Very common. November, January to June. Area general. 

 One of the universally-diffused species, growing apparently indifferently 

 on limestone, slate, or granite. The frost of the severe winter of 1869 



