FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 193 
Mr. J. Reddy. Park Place, Dr. Noeteden. Bucks, Northants, 
very rare. Gloster, Warwick, very rare. 
Orv. XLVI. OLEACEA, Lind. 
LIGUSTEUM. L. 
L. vulgare, L. The Privet. 
Top. Bot. 274. Syme, E. B. vi. 60. 904. Nym. 494. Bx. 119. 
Native. Sylvestral. Hedges, thickets. Common, especially on the 
chalk and oolite, but occurs in all the districts. Shrub. June—Aug. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
* Syringa vulgaris, D. Lilac. 
Alien. Adderbury Road nearly opposite to Twyford Turn, originally 
planted in hedge, and on a hedgebank on the opposite side of the field, 
A. Fr. Hedge between Beckley Hill and Noke. 
FRAXINUS. L. 
F. excelsior, L. The Ash Tree. 
Top. Bot. 275. Syme, E. B. vi. 57. 902. Nym. 495. Bx. 382. 
Native. Woods, hedges, and*thickets. Frequent in North and West 
Oxford, less common round Oxford and on the chalk. Tree. April, May. 
First record, Plot, 1677. ‘At Bicester the Ash frequently grows out 
of the bole of the Willow and sends its roots down the trunk, eventually 
extending itself so much as to burst the Willow in sunder, whose sides fall 
away, while what before were Ash roots now become the body of the Ash 
themselves, but this happens not to Pollard Willows,’ Plot, 173. 
* Var. heterophylla, Vahl. 
Alien, Planted near end of Broad Walk, Christ Church Meadow, 
W.T.T. Dyer in Journ. Bot. vol.ix. Not more deserving « place in’ 
our Flora than Platanus orientalis, or other planted shrubs in the same 
locality. 
Orv. XLVII. APOCYNE4Z, Br. 
vVIncA. L. 
* V. major, L. Great Periwinkle. 
Comp. Cyb. Pr. 537. Syme, E. B. vi. 62.905. Nym. 497. Bx. 158.. 
Alien. Hedgerows, etc. Rare. P. June—Aug. 
First record, Plot, 1677. Clematis Daphnoides major, Ger. em. 
3. Swere. Wroxton, Gull. Not wild, T. Bees. Wykeham Lane, 
between the Turnpike and the Park, A. Fr. Great Tew, adjoining 
the Park, A. Fr. 
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