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Urtica pilulifera L. Alien. Div. 7. Bardney, 1640; John 

 Parkinson's Theat. Bot. 'It groweth also in the streete of 

 Bardney in Lincolnshire/ 



Urtica urens L.f Native. Divs. 1-5. 7.9-14. 16. 17. 

 Parietaria officinalis L.f Native. Divs. 1.3. 5-12. 14.16. 



MVRICACE I-. 



Myrica Gale L.+ Native. Divs. 1.2.5.7. 10. 13. 14 



CUPULIFERJ-:. 



Betula verrucosa Ehrh.f Native. Divs. 1-4.7. 8.1 1-14. Found 

 below the turf in fens, carrs, and bogs, but rare. ' It comes up 

 wherever Scotch Fir {P. sylvestris L.) is cut down.' — Rev. 



R. E. G. Cole. See Sir J. Banks, Phil. Trans., vol. 89 (1796), 

 p. 145, and Jour. Science and Art, vol. 2, p. 244. For place- 

 names after this tree see Rev. G. S. Streatfeild's Lines, and the 

 Danes, 1884, p. 228. 



Betula pubescens Ehrh.t Alien, I imagine. Divs. 7. n. 12. 



Alnus glutinosa Medie.f Native. Divs. 1-3. 7.8.10-14.17. Rarely 



found under the turf of fens. 



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Witham, 1769. For place-names after this tree see Rev. G. S. 

 Streatfeild's Lines, and the Danes, p. 229. 



Carpinus Betulus L.f Alien. Divs. 7. 1 2. 13. 



Corylus Avellana L.f Native. Divs. 1-3.5. 7-i°- I 3- I 5- 16 - Hazel- 

 nuts are found in our bogs, fens, and carrs. In sinking the 

 tubes on which the Trent Bridge rests at Keadby, nuts were 

 taken (!) from a stratum of peat a distance below the bed of 

 the stream in mid-water. See Sir J. Banks in Jour, of Science 

 and Art, vol. 2, p. 244. 



Quercus pedunculata Ehrh.t Native. Divs. 1-8.10-13. 16-18. 



Found in bogs, fens, and carrs. Very large trees indeed— far 

 larger as a rule than any now to be found. They flourished 

 most wherever the soil on which they grew was stiff and 

 tenacious. Whenever they stood on sand they tap-rooted into 



the clay below. 



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J. Banks, Jour, of Scien 



vol. 2, p. 244; L. Edwards' Witham, 1769; G. S. >treatfeikfs 



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Div. 7. Willingham, 1877-79; 



Lees 



Castanea sativa MilLt Planted alien. Divs. 1.2.10-13. 



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June 1896. 



