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between Roboroiigh Down and the Meavy river, near Hoo 

 Meavy : one had, in August, 1869, many clusters of unripe 

 fruit ; and close by were two young bushes, sprung from seed, 

 one of them of only two or three years' growth ; in a neigh- 

 bouring wood was another fine bush with fruit. 

 There are valuable critical remarks on this plant by Dr. Boswell, in 

 Bot. Ex. Cluh Reiwrts, especially Avith reference to the name it should 

 bear. In English Botany, under 'P. scandica,' he speaks of a specimen 

 that I had sent him, which was really of latifolia. Under the same 

 name I inserted notices of it m the Journal of Botany. (See Boswell, in 

 Bot. Ex. Club Pejjor^s, 1869, 11 ; 1872-74, 19-21.) 



The flowers have a remarkably sickly and disagreeable smell. The fruit 

 is nearly globose m shape ; those of the largest size rather over half-an- 

 inch each way ; when fully grown, but stone hard, the colour is olivaceous 

 brown, with numerous very small light-brown or greyish dots disposed 

 irregularly over the surface, giving the skm a blistered appearance. 

 ^Yhen ripe, at the end of October or in November, it becomes somewhat 

 reddish, but never has the decided red of the fruit of P. Aria. I inserted 

 the above account of it in Rej). Bot. Ex. Cluh, 1875, 17. I have found 

 seeds vegetate rather readily. 



First record : Bosivell-Syme, in English Botany, iii. 246 : 1864. 



281. P. Aucuparia, Gaertn. Bloimtain Ash. 



Native ; in woods, copses, wild rocky places, and hedges. Rather, 

 though locally, common. ^lay, part of June, 

 c. I. Between Caracawn Cross and Hessenford. Seaton Yalley. Wacker 

 Wood. Sheviock Wood. Cutmere. Border of Viverdon Down. 

 Notter Valley, near Newbridge. Between Wootton Cross and 

 Blunts. 

 II. Harewood, near Calstock ; Keys, Fl. ii. 146. Near Kingsmiil. 

 Cotehele. Between Ashland and Harrowbarrow. 

 D. III. By the Plymouth and Tavistock Road at Torr. Hedge between 

 Beaconsfield and Ham, Pennycross. Budshead. Warleigh 

 Wood, Blaxton, and elsewhere near Tamerton Foliot. Between 

 Lophill and Denham Bridge. Beer Ferrers. Near Horrabridge. 

 IV. Saltram Wood. Hedge between Marsh Mills and Plympton. 

 Between Butless and Herdwick. Woods of the Plym Valley. 

 Derriford. Bickleigh. In hedges, wooded and rocky spots about 

 Dartmoor. 

 V. Passage Wood, Revelstoke. Copse near Yealmpton, by the road 

 to Revelstoke. A bush in a hedge between Chittleburn and 

 Brixton village. Another in a hedge at Lynham. 

 VI. Wood near Cling Mill. Border of a copse by the Erme, a little 

 below Efford. Erme Valley, on Dartmoor. 



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