100 AMENTIFERJG. 



tJ. MONTANA, Sm. Wych Elm. Tr. 3-4. Woods and 

 hedges ; com. 



Var. VEGETA. Chichester Elm, is referred to this species 

 by Selby. 



Note. U. montana, as underwood, is called in Sussex 

 Wych Hazel. 



AMENTIFER^E. 



QUERCUS ROBUR, L. Oak. Tr. 4-5. Woods and hedges ; 



com. 



Var. PEDUNCULATA. Common Oak. Occurs in all the 

 districts. 



Var. SESSILIFLORA. Durmast Oak. Not com. I. Good- 

 wood, not unfreq. Cowdray Park. II. St. Leonards 

 Forest, Borrer. III. One tree nr. Cuckfield, N.B.G. 



IV. A tree below Newick, N.B.G. Plumpton, E.E. 



V. Nr. Hailsham, by the path to Magham Down, R. 



VI. Guestling, somewhat rare, B. VII. Withyham. 

 Bridge, E.J. 



Note. The oak is the forest tree of the county, whence 

 it provided many of "the wooden walls" of yore. It 

 luxuriates on the Wealden clay. " Queen Elizabeth's 

 Oak," in Cowdray Park, under which Her Majesty 

 stood to shoot the deer with a crossbow, measures, at 

 4ft. from the ground, 36ft. in circumference. It is 

 sound from bottom to top. The " Cecil Oak," in the 

 " Flat " of Petworth Park, which was planted at the 

 beginning of the seventeenth century to commemorate 

 the marriage of the tenth Earl of Northumberland 

 with Lady Ann Cecil, is also a very fine tree. 



*CASTANEA VULGARIS, Lam. Sweet Chestnut. Tr. 5. 

 , Woods and parks ; com. 



FAGUS SYLVATICA, L. Common Beech. Tr. 3-4. 

 Woods, chiefly on the chalk; com. 



Note. Johnson, 1633, says, " It groweth very plenti- 

 fully in many For rests and desart places of Sussex." 

 The Sussex hangers are chiefly composed of beech. 

 Majestic trees occur at Harting, Slindon, and in the 

 neighbourhood of Arundel. 



CORYLUS AVELLANA, L. Hazel. Tr. 3-4. Woods and 

 hedges; com. 



CARPINUS BETULUS, L. Hornbeam. Tr. 5-6. Woods; 

 not com. in W. Sussex. I. Harting, H.D.G. Midhurst, 

 H.E.F. Stansted Woods, A. III. Hurstpierpoint, abund., 

 Bromfield. Shipley, E.E. V. Abbot's Wood, abund. 

 Copse nr. the Links, Eastbourne, R. VI. Old Roar, 

 Hastings. From Battle to Heathfield, very com. Guest- 

 ling. Bodiam Castle, B. 



ALNUS GLUTINOSA, L. Alder. Tr. 3. Swamps and 

 banks of streams ; com. 



