[1077] Naturalists’ Journal, 1895, p. 99.
[1078] Nat. Jour., l.c.; J. G. Strutt, Sylva Britannica, 1826, p. 28. Strutt gives a fine illustration of the Fortingal yew.
[1079] Murray, Handbook for Derbyshire, 3rd edition, 1892, p. 30.
[1080] Sir G. L. Gomme, Primitive Folk-Moots, 1880, p. 133.
[1081] Murray, Handbook for Surrey, 5th edition, 1898, p. 67.
[1082] Church of Our Fathers, p. 178.
[1083] I have not yet observed a yew growing on a British burial mound, but Gen. A. Pitt-Rivers, in describing a British barrow which he opened on Winkelbury Hill, seems to supply an instance. He states that he found no relics within the mound, and that this absence was probably due to a dead yew, locally called a “scrag,” which he removed. Gen. Pitt-Rivers calls the yew an “insertion,” but was the tree “inserted” alive or dead? A dead yew would scarcely work much havoc. He continues—and the addition is noteworthy—“I afterwards learnt that the people of the neighbourhood attached some interest to it, and it has since been replaced by Sir Thomas Grove.” (Excav. in Cranborne Chase, II. 1888, p. 258.) Cf. Folk-Lore, XIII. p. 96; Prof. H. Conwenz, in Brit. Assoc. Report, 1901, p. 839.
[1084] W. Watson, The Father of the Forest, V. I.
[1085] J. Cossar Ewart, in Ency. of Agriculture, ed. by C. E. Green and C. Young, 1908, II. p. 427. W. Watts, Geology for Beginners, 2nd edition, 1907, p. 300. H. A. Nicholson, Manual of Palaeontology, 1889, II. pp. 1360-3, claims Phenacodus, a fossil animal from the lowest Eocene of North America, as representing the five-toed ancestor of the horse. On the general question of ancestry, see p. 411 n. infra. An acute criticism of the modern theory is offered in J. Gerard’s The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer, 5th edition, 1908, pp. 93-106.
[1086] J. Cossar Ewart, op. cit. II. p. 426.