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bathick. Viverdon Down ; also in plenty in an enclosure below 

 it, 1875. 

 II. Several bushes in a low bushy pasture near St. Johns village ; 

 one genuiiia ; another nearest ascendens, but with ovate 

 leaves. Waste spot by the road to St. Dominick, near Vernico 

 Down. 

 D. III. [In a piece of boggy ground near Axter Gate, Roborough, by the 

 road from the village to Tamerton Fohot, in plenty, 1865, but 

 since destroyed by the drainage and cultivation of the ground ; 

 specimens thence seem to go best under vars. genuina and 

 fusca respectively ; whilst a third is near argeyitea.'] 

 lY. On a hedge-bank by the rough cartway from the clay works 

 over Hemerdon Ball ; two bushes, 1871. In a piece of waste 

 ground in an enclosure from Roborough Down, near Leeford ; 

 two forms, 1879. 

 V. In plenty in two or three pastures by Crownhill Down ; also on 

 the moory flat below Cholwichtown, in the same neighbour- 

 hood ; one form the typical plant, or near it ; another, fusca, 

 1871. 



CONIFERS. 



TAXUS, Tournef. 

 655. T. baccata, Z. Yew. 



Denizen or Alien ; in wooded or bushy places. Very rare. ]\Iarch, 

 April. 

 D. III. A very small bush on the side of a hedge-bank by Warleigh Wood, 

 Tamerton Foliot, 1871. 

 IV. A single bush seen many years ago in a bushy spot on Derriford 



estate, and another on that of Fursdon, Egg Buckland. 

 V. In a wood near Yealmpton, perhaps planted. A single bush on 

 a low cliff by the tidal inlet belo^v Kitley, where it would seem 

 not to have been planted, 1875. 

 This species is recorded in Banks's Flora, but his stations are so un- 

 satisfactory that they are not hicorporated Avith the above. They are, 

 "Ford, Mr. Tripe; Boxhill, Mr. Morris ; woods near Manadon House ; 

 and churchyards." Perhaps, when not planted, in every case sown by 

 birds. 



Pinus sylvestris, L. The Scotch Fir occasionally springs from seed 

 shed by planted trees, and in favourable situations attains the dimensions 

 of a tree. Some small seedling trees growing on the side of the cutting 

 at the head of ]Manadon Hill (District iv.) ; two on garden walls at 

 Hareston (v.), each a foot or two in height, in 1875. 



