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- NOTE—BOTANY. 
Bortree or esern hig de Bush=the Elder.—In reply to Rev. W. C. 
Bey: the name Bor or Bortree-bush is common enough in the north of 
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ch, rae and Provincial Worda ads i yy 4847, va 221) gives a reference 
ptoriu p.137;:an En 
compiled, [ SS in 1440 by one of the Dominicans, or Black Friars, of 
fi M i Med.,’ 
eh rahin Norfolk, and also a quotation from ‘MS. Lincoln i; 
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it is Bur-tree. In the abridgment of Jamieson’s ‘Scottish 
Dictionary. Tag , p» 80, col. 2, ‘Borral Tree supposed the Bourtree,’ and 
4 Biiveeee Bush, Boretree, Bountree, N, of Eng. Burtree, 
i, is So called because boys bore it, or in some manner extract the pith for 
r 
Stile, just outside Ulverston. I ot phar: what trust is «4 be placed in 
oe iho aoe but Bye it as a papiosity :—1640. Parkins c Heri of 
ts io be: ‘ink ambucus, of Sarhbix as it is thought 
This is, I suppose, a ‘pipe’? The tea ae scree n in N. Lancashire 
and Cumberland is Bur-tree, hence B = Bort T have no access = 
the ‘Oxford En ng. Dict.’ or Bretton pay Hollands “Plant N Names,’ but n 
etna the question is sles foh ae out there,—S. ETTY, Ulverston, tars 
1899. . 
NOTE—MAMMALIA., 
Badgers in Lincolnshire.—1 exhibited to the Lincolnshire Peat cee 
‘Union pe Woodhall Spa the skin of a rie a Sek PR meles), killed at Wood- 
hall. They used to be common on ie <irkby Moor, near Woodhail Spa, 
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iv ve rocks at Holbeck. Thi Ss one was caught by some boys in a large 
bit hole on my land, within a hundred yards of the blacksmith’s shop at 
W oodhall Spa. 1 have anot specimen stuffed, which was killed at some 
re : 
arths. 12S 
my stuffed speci about the same.—J. CONWAY WALTER, Langton 
Rectory, Homeastle, 1 18th At ug. 1898. 
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