'JOTS 



AKBOKETUM AND FRUTICETUM, 



PART III. 



in diameter, covered with bark, and in a state of vigorous growth: it is, in 

 (act, of itself a great tree, and overtops the old one. On examination, how- 

 ex er, it is found to be united behind, and also at some distance from the 

 ground, by two great contorted arms, one on each side, to the inner wall of 

 its decaying parent ; being a curious example of natural inarching, and having 

 altogether a very striking and singular appearance. 



The Uanihewy Vach Yew. This tree, a male, which stands in the church- 

 yard of Llanthewv Vach, near Caerleon, measures 30 ft. 4* in. in circum- 

 ference at 3 ft. from the ground; and, like the last, has a stunted and hollow 

 trunk, with a lateral opening, and will hold five or six persons. It has also 

 in the centre a still more remarkable inner trunk, covered with bark, quite 

 detached and distinct from the old trunk below, but united with it above by a 

 great branch running into, or more probably proceeding from, it. 



The Gres/brd Yew, of which Jig. 1988. is a portrait, stands in the south- 

 east corner of Gresford churchyard, near Wrexham, Denbighshire. The 



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Circumference of the trunk, at . r >ft. 3 in. from the ground (being at the point 

 Of divarication of the main branches), is 20ft. j and at the very base, it is 

 >>ft.; from the trunk to the extremity of the branches, on the south side 



