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in a lane in the same neighbourhood between the St. Stephens 

 and Saltash Road and Weard Quay, forming a considerable 

 portion of the hedge-row growth for some yards ; also a single 

 bush on a hedge-bank between fields at a right angle with the 

 lane. Some large buslies intermixed with Oak on the side of 

 a low cliff by the tidal inlet between Wivelscombe and Shilling- 

 ham, occurring for a few yards ; near a garden, yet looking as 

 much a Native as the Oak and Black Cherry, growing at the 

 same place : with some fruit in Augi^st, 1878. 

 D. IV. Growmg quite wild on an isolated rock in Bovisand Bay (May, 

 1865), far from gardens or houses ; yet I do not feel justified in 

 pronouncing it indigenous ; Keys, FL ii. 145. Specimens 

 brought thence by my brother, Major Briggs, in 1871. 

 V. On a bank by the Plymouth and Exeter Road, near L3mham ; 

 only a single old bush, but growing where it was certainly 

 never planted. As it occurs by the turnpike road, where the 

 hedge-banks are frequently pared, it is not likely ever to 

 produce flowers. Known for many years past, and recorded in 

 Jour. Bot. iii. 350. This station is erroneously given as ' Tam- 

 erton Foliott ' by Keys. 

 VI. A bush m a hedge-row near Battisborough Cross, close to the 

 road to JMothecombe, with Pyrus communis; the both looking 

 as if originally planted. 

 First record : Briggs, 1865. 



CRAT^GUS, Lmdl. 



278. C. Oxyacantha, L. b. monogyna, Jacq. Hawthorn; ' White 

 Thorn: 

 Native ; in woods, copses, on commons, and in hedges. Very 

 common. May, part of June. Area general. 



Over all the enclosed country, and also here and there in the wild open 

 tracts. It occurs on many parts of Dartmoor, and up the valley of the 

 Erme, between Harford Bridge and Erme Pound, many bushes of con- 

 siderable size are dotted along the sides of the vale, with Pyrus Aucu- 

 paria. A bush with pink flowers near Sequers Bridge ; another, together 

 with one bearing deep rose-coloured ones, in a hedge, planted for a fence, 

 by the turnpike road near Ermington. A form with very deeply cut 

 leaves occurs near Efford Mill (District iv.) ; m a hedge between Swilly 

 and Weston Mills, and in a planted one at Roborough (District in.). 

 There are some very fine Hawthorns in the Tavy Valley, below Buckland 

 Abbey. 



About Plymouth the flowers of the Lilac {Syringa vulgaris) rather 

 than those of this species are popularly known as ' May. ' The berries are 

 called ' aglets,' not ' haws,' by the country children. 



