FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 265 
from the ground, which for many years flourished as well as any tree in 
the Grove,’ Ibid. 
Mongewell celebrated for its fair woods in Leland; the principal tree 
is 79 feet high, 14 feet in circumference at three feet from the ground, 65 in 
extent of boughs, and contains 265 feet of solid timber. Bears an in- 
scription, ‘To the memory of my vald. friends, T. Tyrwhitt and Rev. C. 
M. Cracherode— 
In this once favoured walk, beneath these elms, 
Whose thickened foliage to the solar ray 
Impervious, sheds a venerable gloom, 
Oft in instructive converse we beguiled 
The time which each returning year 
To friendships call devoted. 
Such things were; But are alas no more.’ 
S. Duneum. Strutt. Sylv. Br. 
Plot says ‘on Bletchingdon Green there was an elm of so capacious a 
hollow trunk, that it once gave reception to a poor... woman, excluded 
of all the houses in the parish to prevent her bringing a charge onit; who 
was delivered in it of a son.’ 
A fine tree 27 feet in girth in Holton Park, now very hollow. 
A handsome tree in Clanfield village. 
The Magdalen Grove Elms are of this species. 
Var. structa, Lindl. U. glabra, Sm. 
Syme, E. B. viii. 138. 1286. 
U. folio angusto glabro, Plot, with smooth leaves, differs from U. minor 
of Parkinson and Gerard, but also from their U. folio glabro; at Hanwell, 
there is a whole walk of them besides others that grow wild in the coppices 
of the Park. 
3. Swere. Hanwell as above, Bloxham, see Rep. of Rec. Club, 1883. 
6. Thame. Cowley. 
The richness of the Elms is particularly noticeable in the Thames valley 
from Mongewell southwards. 
Berks. ‘The signal elm that looks on Isley downs, 
The single elm tree bright against the west.’ M. ARNOLD. 
Orp. LXX. CUPULIFERA, Rich. 
PAGUS. L. 
F. sylvatica, L. The Beech. 
Top. Bot. 370. Syme, E. B. viii. 164.1291. Nym. 660. Bx. 331. 
Native. Sylvestral. Woods on the Chilterns, plantations, hedges, and 
parks elsewhere. Tree. March, April. 
