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D. III. Budshead Wood. 



IV. Plym Valley woods, in certain spots. Hedges where was formerly 



Buckland Down ; certainly planted. 

 V. Hedges between Yealm Bridge and Ermington. 

 VI. Wood by the Erme, near Eflford. On a bushy bank near Okin- 

 biiry, between Kingston and Ringmore. 

 The Beech is much planted, and m favourable situations springs up 

 very readily from self-so"VMi seed. Bearing this fact in mind, I think that 

 if it were an indigenous species it would be more generally diffused than 

 we find it to be. The stations noted mider the Districts will serve to 

 show the situations m which we now see it. It goes very well into the 

 Denizen class. 



Compared with other forest trees the Beech is of rare occurrence in 

 Devonshire and Cornwall ; Polvh. Hist. Corn. i. 171, 1803. 



CORYLUS, Toumef. 



640. C. Avellana, X. Hazel; ' Nuttal-hush ; ^Halse.' 



Native ; in woods, copses, and hedges. Very common. Part of 

 January to JMarch. Area general. 

 Often forms a bushy undergrowth beneath the forest trees of aboriginal 

 woods, and is one of the most frequent of hedge-row bushes. A few 

 years ago a remarkably large hazel stood in a quarry-pit by the old road 

 between Polscove and Polbathick ; it was cut down before 1879. There 

 is a fine example in the vale below Crownhill Down, near Newnham 

 Park (District iv.). A form with leaves much cut in a hedge between 

 Saltram Stag Gate and Hay. 



CARPINUS, L. 



641. C. Betulus, L. Hornbeam. 



Denizen, apparently ; in plantations, hedge-rows, and woods. 

 Rather rai'e. May. 

 c. I. Hedge near Trethill, but no doubt planted. 



II. On the border of the lawn at Wolsdon, near Antony. 

 D. III. A bush on the side of a hedge-bank at St. Budeaux. Budshead. 

 A few bushes in a hedge by Drunkard's Lane, and in another 

 near Postham, Tamerton Foliot. Warleigh Wood, appearing 

 both as undergrowth and m the form of small trees. A young 

 seedling in Woodlands Wood. 

 IV. Saltram Wood, above the Laira. Hedge near Thornbury Corner, 

 and between Leigham and Plymbridge, Egg Buckland. A bush 

 with Beech, by a hedge-bank between Elfordleigh and Shangh, 

 1876. A great deal in a hedge-row by the lane leading from 

 Bickleigh village to Roborough Down. Near Ridgway. 

 The Hornbeam is an Alien rather than a Denizen in Districts i. and ii. 



