There is a rich variety of species in the understorey, including rowan, Midland hawthorn and hazel.

The grassland has a large population of the rare corkyfruit water dropwort, while midland hawthorns are abundant in the woodland.

Holly forms a dense understorey in some places, while elsewhere a more diverse shrub layer includes Midland hawthorn and hazel.

Several cultivars of the Midland Hawthorn C. laevigata have been selected for their pink or red flowers.

In the past, midland hawthorn was widely but incorrectly known by the name C. oxyacantha, a name that has now been rejected as being of uncertain application.

The midland hawthorn was described botanically as a separate species as long ago as 1798 by Poiret, whose name Mespilus laevigata referred to this hawthorn.

Trees growing in the reserve include oak (found in the centre of the wood on sandy ground), field maple, wild service tree, small-leaved lime, midland hawthorn and Common hawthorn.

There is a wide range other shrubs including Field Maple, Holly, Goat Willow, Spindle, Wild Privet, Midland Hawthorn and Guelder-rose.

In 1946 Dandy showed that Linnaeus had actually observed and described a single-styled species similar to the Common Hawthorn, and the Midland Hawthorn was effectively a later discovery.

Hawthorn and blackthorn are the most frequently occurring species but you can recognise pointers to the antiquity of the hedgerows you encounter on the 'indicator' species - hazel, field maple, Midland hawthorn and spindle.

It is distinguished from the related but less widespread Midland Hawthorn (C. laevigata) by its more upright growth, the leaves being deeply lobed, with spreading lobes, and in the flowers having just one style, not two or three.

These currently include ash, oak, alder, crab apple, willow, silver birch, wild cherry, blackthorn, buckthorn, dogwood, field maple, hawthorn, midland hawthorn, hazel, spindle, wayfaring, guelder rose, rowan, holly and aspen.

The wood is an ancient oak-hornbeam woodland, which features English oak and occasional beech which provide a canopy above cherry, field maple, hazel, holly, hornbeam, midland hawthorn, mountain ash and both species of lowland birch.

Linnaeus introduced the name Crataegus oxyacantha for a species of Northern European Hawthorn and the name gradually became used for several similar species which were assumed to be the same, particularly the Midland Hawthorn C. laevigata and the Common Hawthorn C. monogyna.

If there are English hawthorns in the area, the disease will be difficult to control.

English hawthorn and Japanese flowering cherry are also safe bets.

Horticultural oil won't help because the problem is not caused by an insect, but by the same fungus disease that attacks English hawthorns.

She drank a warm strange smell of flowers, and remembered English hawthorn when they crowned the May Queen.

Crataegus laevigata, known as the midland hawthorn, English hawthorn, woodland hawthorn or mayflower, is a species of hawthorn native to western and central Europe, from Great Britain (where it is uncommon, and largely confined to the Midlands) and Spain east to the Czech Republic and Hungary.

Crataegus laevigata, known as the midland hawthorn, English hawthorn, woodland hawthorn or mayflower, is a species of hawthorn native to western and central Europe, from Great Britain (where it is uncommon, and largely confined to the Midlands) and Spain east to the Czech Republic and Hungary.

She was one year old during her trip on the Mayflower.

About half the people on the Mayflower died that first winter.

And the Mayflower has had its share of true drama, he said.

But in one wild day at the Mayflower - everything will change.

I did and went to the port from which we could see the Mayflower.

"We have the money coming to the Mayflower right now.

This was the same home town where other Mayflower passengers lived.

More lived longer than any other male passenger of the Mayflower.

He had made it his business to find out when the Mayflower gossip started.

There certainly had been no sign of them in the Mayflower cafe.

What finally became of the Mayflower is an unsettled issue.

After the third time, the Mayflower had to decide if they would make the journey alone.

"Then he took him across the street for a drink at the Mayflower, and they settled it quickly."

She has grown since then, even to the proportions of the Mayflower.

"We stayed at the Mayflower across the street from the park.

Even the Mayflower smelled bad and she was brand new.

If Mayflower took offense, his face did not reveal it.

"Being a hero isn't something you learn on the job," said Mayflower.

She was one of eleven minor girls on the Mayflower.

For one thing, there's scarcely been a day since that a new Mayflower hasn't arrived.

The Mayflower was still in orbit over us, taking on cargo.

The book ends with a list, written in 1651, of Mayflower passengers and what happened to them.

The descendants of the Mayflower would not have had my grandparents at their table.

We learned about her ancestors that sailed on the Mayflower.

A second cigar might well have been lit with the heat from Mayflower's face.