[937] G. S. Boulger, Familiar Trees, n.d., 2nd Ser., p. 58.
[938] Sir J. Evans, Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, 2nd edition, 1897, p. 575. Sir A. C. Ramsay, Geology and Geography of Great Britain, 3rd edition, 1878, p. 358.
[939] Science Gossip, XXII. pp. 116, 150, 191, 262; XXIII. p. 21; xxiv. pp. 44, 93, 142. G. White, Nat. Hist. of Selborne, Harting’s edition, 1880, pp. 420-1. J. Carroll, in Country Side, III. p. 252. Jour. Board Agric. X. (1903), pp. 235-6. Trans. Chem. Soc. LXXXI. (1902), p. 874. Lowe, Yew-Trees, pp. 147 et seqq. E. Step, Wayside and Woodland Trees, 1904, p. 76, asserts that the “kernels” are not poisonous.
[940] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. XVI., c. 20.
[941] Liddell and Scott, Greek-English Lexicon, 8th edition, 1883, s.v.
[942] Caesar, De Bello Gall., lib. VI., c. 20.
[943] Liddell and Scott, Greek-English Lexicon, W. Smith, Latin Dict., 19th edition, s.v.
[944] Cent. Dict., under “Yew.”
[945] Notes and Queries, 7th Series, IV. p. 532.
[946] Cent. Dict., loc. cit.