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Orv. LXXIIT. CONIFER, L. 
JUNIPERUS. L. 
J. communis, L. Juniper. 
Top. Bot. 379. Syme, E. B. viii. 273. 1382. Bx. 431. 
Native. Dry pastures and chalk downs. Locally common. Shrub. May. 
First record, Wm. Coles, 1657. 
Noticed also as an Oxford plant in Turner’s Botanologia, 1664, and ‘on 
many hills in Oxfordshire,’ Merrett, 1667. 
2. Ouse. Cottisford Heath, Bees, 
3. Swere. Great Tew, Bees. 
4. Ray. Heyford Leys, T. Bees. Bx. 1831. Middleton, Rev. E. Fox. 
Some fine bushes over twelve feet high near the north termination 
of the Avesditch between Heyford and Middleton. 
5. Isis. Abundantly on a common between Blenheim and Ditchley, 
Mr. Woodward in Withering. 
6. Thame. Headington Quarry, Br. 
7. Thames. Bechentree, Stokenchurch, Coles, 1657. Stokenchurch 
Hills, Sib./ Lewknor, Caversham,.A. Ir. Kingston Hill, Hb. Bz. 
Goring, Hb. Lawson. Beacon Hill abundant, Grime’s Dyke, 
Pyrton Hill, Brightwell Downs, Swincombe Downs, Nuffield, 
Chinnor Hill, Penley Woods, very fine specimens. 
Berks. Streatley Downs, ete. Bucks, Napford, etc. Northants, 
extinct. Gloster E. Warwick, absent. 
TAXUS. JL. 
T. baccata, LD. Yew. 
Top. Bot. 380. Syme, E. B. viii. 277. 1384. Nym.:677. Bx. 222. 
Native. Woods on chalky or calcareous soil. Planted elsewhere. 
Tree. March, April. 
First record, Sib. 1794. 
2. Ouse. Ardley Wood, seedling. 
3. Swere. Not wild, 7. Bees. Wroxton, Gull. Tadmarton, Broughton, 
Adderbury, Great Tew, A. Fr. 
4. Ray. Rousham. 
5. Isis. Cornbury Quarries, Sib. / fine trees. 
6. Thame. The large Yew at Iffley Church-yard is supposed to be as 
old as the Church itself, over 7oo years. ‘It is now, 1837, 22 feet 
high, the girth at 2 feet from ground 20 feet, diameter of head 25 
feet.? Cuddesdon Church-yard, Waterstock, etc. 
7, Thames. Goring, Watlington, between Christmas Common and 
Assenton, Checkenden, Penley Wood fine specimens, Whitchurch, 
splendid trees in Ipsden Woods. Native on the Chilterns, 
