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PHANEROGAMIA. 



Class 3. GTMNOSPERM^. 



CONIFERS. 



TAXUS, Linn. 



949. T. baccata, L. Tew. 



Native; in nearly all old woods upon the carbon- 

 iferous limestone. Locally common. 



It is very abundant in Leigh Woods, and about the 

 rocky combes and hills at Brockley, Cleeve, and 

 Congresbury. There are some especially fine trees 

 in the churchyard at West Harptree, and in the 

 villages of Churchill and Compton Martin; but 

 perhaps the finest and most perfect yew grows in 

 Winscombe churchyard, where its sheltered posi- 

 tion has preserved it from the shattering storms of 

 centuries. A larger and more ancient tree is 

 enclosed in the vicarage grounds. These trees may 

 have been planted when Winscombe manor was a 

 possession of Grlastonbury Abbey. III. IV. 



JUNIPERUS, Linn. 



950. J. communis, L. Juniper. 



Native; abundant on some hill-sides east of Bath; 

 on the extreme border of our district. Dr. St. 

 Brody, in his Flora of Weston, gives a locality near 

 Uphill, which has not been confirmed. V. 



