310 AMENTIFERiE. 



ALNTJS, Tournef. 



642. A. glutinosa, L. Common Aider ; ^Aller.' 



Native ; on the banks of rivers and streams, in swampy places, 

 and in hedges of the low country. Common. February, March. 

 c. I. Seaton Valley. St. Germans. Sheviock. Notter Valley. 



II. Hedge-row by Hay Lane, near Torpoint. Near Penhale. Kings- 

 mill. 

 D. III. Honicknowle. Budshead Wood. Warleigh Wood, Tavy Valley. 

 Between Tavistock and Horrabridge. 

 IV. Between Staddiscombe and Goosewell. Plym Valley, Derriford, 

 Fui-sdon, &c.. Egg Buckland. Plympton St. Mary. 

 V. Fordbrook. Lee Mill Bridge. 

 VI. Flete. Ivybridge. 

 Perhaps this might go into the ' very common ' list. 

 A valley or moor where alders gTow is called in Devonshire an aller- 

 bear ; Pohch. Hist. Devonsh. I have never heard the word aUerhear 

 used. Mr. Worth informs me that the word beer, here, or bear, which 

 occurs so frequently in the names of places in Devon, is from the Saxon 

 heera, a gTove ; thus, allerbear = alder grove. 



BETT7LA, Tournef. 



643. B. alba, L. 



Native ; in woods, copses, and hedges. Common. Part of April, 

 May. 



a. verrucosa^ Ehrh. White Birch. 

 c. I. Caracawn. Near Clapper Bridge, by both the road to Pillaton 

 and to Quethiock. By the stream below Pillaton Down, 

 growing close to glutinosa, Wallr. Between Pillaton and St. 

 Mellion. 

 II. Harewood ; Keys, Fl. iii. 224. Between Callington and Gunnis- 

 lake. 

 D. III. Blaxton. Hedge between Inchers and Roborough village. Near 

 Denhara Bridge. Wood above the Tamar, opposite Calstock, 

 also between Beer Alston and Tuckermarsh Quay. 

 IV. Common Wood, Plymbridge Road, and Derriford, Egg Buckland. 



Near Bickleigh. 

 VI. Erme Valley, between Ivybridge and Harford. 

 Trees somewhat mtermediate between this and glutinosa occur. 



h. glutinosa, Wallr., inclusive of c. puhescens, Ehrh. Common 

 Birch. 

 c. I. Near Hessenford {puhescens). Wacker Wood, and near Sconner 

 House {puhescens). Pillaton Down {glutinosa). Border of 



