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PIIANEROGAMIA. 



Class 3. GYMN08.ri'lIiMJ<l. 



CONi\n<]\iAi. 



TAXUS, Linn. 

 949. T. baccata, L. Yew. 



Wativo; in nearly all old woods npon the carbon- 

 iferous limestone. Locally common. 



It is very abundant in Leigh Woods, and about the 

 rocky combos and hills at Brockley, Cleovo, and 

 CongresbuT'y. There are some especially fine trees 

 in the churchyard at West Harptrce, and in the 

 villages of Churchill and Compton Martin ; but 

 perhaps the finest and most perfect yew gi'ows in 

 Winscombe churchyard, whore its sheltered posi- 

 tion has pi'osei'ved it fi'om 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 Glastonbury Abbey. III. IV. 



JUNIPERUS, Linn. 



950. J. communis, L. Juniper. 



Native ; abundant on some hill-sidos oast of Bath ; 

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

 Brody, in his Flora of Weston, gives a locality noiii- 

 Uphill, which has not been confirmed. V. 



