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flat woods and copses ; rave. In several parts of the Isle of Wight, 

 but so sparingly in the different stations, that I was long disposed to 

 regard it as merely naturalized, till I found it to be quite frequent in 

 the woods near Bishop's Waltham, Wickham, Fareham and Botley. 

 In our Hampshire woods it is never to be seen otherwise than as a 

 small tree of very slender proportions, but flowering and fruiting at an 

 early age, preferring clamp, cool situations by streams. 



Pyrus Aria. Extremely abundant in woods and copses, associated 

 with the beech in most parts of the mainland of Hants, where that 

 tree abounds, often constituting a large proportion of the brush or un- 

 derwood on the sloping faces of the chalk-banks and hills. Profusely 

 about Petersfield, on Butser Hill, Clanfield, Bishop's Waltham. Not 

 rare in the Isle of Wight, in some woods of which it abounds, but 

 rather locally. There is a fine old tree of it in Youngwood's Copse, 

 near Newchurch, which I measured, in February, 1846, and found to 

 be 3 ft. 8f inches in girth at 3^ ft. from the ground, though not above 

 16 or 17 feet in height, with a rounded, spreading head, dividing at 

 36 inches from the earth into several stout arms; the large reddish or 

 orange-coloured fruit not unpalatable. Called white rice or white leaf, 

 sometimes whip crop (from its use in making whip-handles) in the 

 Isle of Wight and county generally. 



torminalis. In woods, copses, and hedges in the lower flat 



country on the eocene or freshwater formation ; not, so far as I have 

 observed, on the chalk, greensand, or any rock accompanying the lat- 

 ter. Plentiful in many parts of the Isle of Wight, north of the great 

 central chalk range, as all along the shore westward from llyde and 

 along the Wootton River, also in various places along the coast of 

 West Medina, between Cowes and Yarmouth. In woods near Fern- 

 hill it forms a large portion of the rice or copse wood, and being cut 

 as such is seldom seen but as a shrub, whilst in other parts of the 

 island it has been permitted to reach its natural dimensions. A tree 

 in Quarr Copse, at Binstead, the largest I know of in the county, I 

 found to measure, a few years ago, 5 ft. 6 inches in girth at 3 feet 

 from the ground ; the height of its fine round-topped and spreading 

 head may be about 30 or 35 feet. The species is here called service- 

 tree, and the brown dotted fruit, which ripens in October and Novem- 

 ber, is sold in Ryde, tied up in small bunches, to children ; the 

 flavour being much like that of medlars, and very agreeably acid. 

 In Sussex the berries are called checquers. On the mainland I have 

 observed it about Lymington, but not as yet in the interior of Hamp- 

 shire, The tree is well worthy of general cultivation, both for its 



