264 FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
Denizen or native. Woods and hedges. Tree. March, April. 
First record, Sib. 1794. U. effusa, W. 
1. Stour. Tadmarton, etc. 
2. Ouse. Shelswell, etc. 
8. Swere. Banbury, Bloxham, A. Fr. Common, Shutford, etc. 
4. Ray. Marston Lane, Sib.! Magdalen College Elm, Walk. Between 
Summertown and Water Eaton, Bx. Oddington, Headington Hill, 
Tackley, Magdalen Grove. 
5. Isis. South Leigh, Sid. In a copse near Ashford Mills, Ba. 
Freeland, Wychwood, Woodstock, Christ Church Meadow. 
6. Thame. Shotover, between Oxford and Iffey, Bx. Thame, Hb. Bu. 
Wheatley, Horsepath, Nuneham, Baldon, Dorchester, Tetsworth. 
7. Thames. Large tree, Checkendon, Whitchurch, Chinnor, Binfield, 
Cookley Green. 
The Magdalen College Elm measured, at two feet from the ground, 
27 feet 4 in., breast high, 21 feet, R. Walk., 1831. 
In Oxfordshire the common people speak of the Wych Elm as a charm, 
against witches, and that a person under the spell of witchcraft will be 
cured if struck nine times with a bough of this tree, Phyt., n. ». vii. 167. 
Var. U. major, Reich. Syme, E. B. 2542. 
3. Swere. Near Broughton. 
4. Ray. Tackley, etc. 
Var. U. nitida, Syme. ‘Branches without corky excrescences, leaves 
shining and glabrous above.’ 
6. Thame. Headington, etc. 
U. campestris, (L.) Sm. Elm. 
Top. Bot. 368. Syme, E. B. viii. 137.1285. Nym. 659. 
Denizen or native. Hedges, woods, etc. Abundant. Tree. March, 
April. U. suberosa, Ebrh. 
First record, Plot, 1677. 
‘Sir Thomas White, Lord Mayor of London, was warned in a dream he 
should build a college close to a triple elm, whereon he retired to Oxford 
end first met with something near Gloucester Hall that seemed to answer 
his dream. But afterwards finding another elm near St. Bernard’s College, 
supprest not long before by King Henry VIII, more exactly to answer the 
circumstances of his dream, he left off at Gloucester Hall and built 
St. John Baptist College, which with the very tree besides it flourishes to 
this day,’ Plot, p. 177. 
‘On Binsey Common stood an elm at the spurs next the ground at 
least six yards diameter,’ Plot, 169. 
‘A great old elm formerly grew in Magdalen College Grove disbarked 
quite round, at most places 2 feet, at some at least a yard or 4 foot 
