27 6 FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
4, Ray. Banks of Cherwell Christ Church Meadow, Bx. in Purton 
and Walker. Probably planted. Warwick. 
* §. Croweana, Sm. Syme, H. B. viii. 238. 1337. 
5. Isis. Christ Church Meadow, planted. 
* §. nitens, G. Anders. Syme, E. B. viii. 238. 1336. 
5. Isis. Christ Church Meadow, planted. 
[S. laurina, Sm. Warwick.] 
Orv. LXXIT. BETULINEA, Bart. 
ALNUS. G. 
A. glutinosa, G. Alder. 
Top. Bot. 372. Syme,.E. B. viii. 178. 1294. Nym. 671. Bx. 193. 
Native. Riversides, damp woods, etc. Rather uncommon. Tree. March, 
April. ; 
First record, Sib. 1794, Betula alnus, L. Near Godstow, South Leigh 
Meadows. 
Noted in all the districts except the Stour. 
Baxter observed Dothidea alnea, Erysi she penicillati, var. Alni, on it in 
Christ Church Meadow and in Magdalen Walk, Erineum Alneum. 
A fine tree of the cut-leaved Alder, A. incisa, Syme, is growing at 
Wolvercote. It was planted in 1800 by Wm. Cobbett.. Small planted trees 
by the Cherwell side in the Parks. 
BETULA. G. 
B. alba, LD. Bireh. 
Native (?) Heaths, woods on light soil. Rare. Tree. May. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
Wm. Coles in Adam in Eden, 1657, says the Birch tree is very rare in 
some counties as in Northants and Oxon where they are set in gardens as 
rarities; and Robt. Turner in the Botanologia, 1664, also refers to its 
rarity here. The Birch is so frequently planted in Oxon that wild 
stations are difficult: to discriminate. 
B. pubescens, Ehrh. 
Syme, E. B. viii. 186. 1296. Nym. 672: 
5. Isis. Bruern Wood: 
B. verrucosa; Ehrh. : 
Syme, E. B. viii. 182. 1295. Nym. 672; 
First record, the Author, 1884. 
5. Isis. Near Kingham. 
[Myrica Gale, L. Old Windsor Park corner, Par#. Theat. Broadmoor 
Bottom, Golden Gully near Newbury, Brit.] 
