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Fire Beacon Hill, the Glossary

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Adder

Vipera berus, also known as the common European adderMallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G (2003).

Agrostis

Agrostis (bent or bentgrass) is a large and very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, found in nearly all the countries in the world.

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Alder

Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.

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Beech

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.

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Bilberry

Bilberries or blueberries are Eurasian low-growing shrubs in the genus Vaccinium in the flowering plant family Ericaceae that bear edible, dark blue berries.

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Birch

A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.

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Bracken

Bracken (Pteridium) is a genus of large, coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae.

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Calluna

Calluna vulgaris, common heather, ling, or simply heather, is the sole species in the genus Calluna in the flowering plant family Ericaceae.

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Chert

Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

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Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).

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Common buzzard

The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is a medium-to-large bird of prey which has a large range.

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Common land is collective land (sometimes only open to those whose nation governs the land) in which all persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.

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Common linnet

The common linnet (Linaria cannabina) is a small passerine bird of the finch family, Fringillidae.

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Common raven

The common raven (Corvus corax) is a large all-black passerine bird.

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Corylus avellana

Corylus avellana, the common hazel, is a species of flowering plant in the birch family Betulaceae, native to Europe and Western Asia.

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Dartford warbler

The Dartford warbler (Curruca undata) is a typical warbler from the warmer parts of western Europe and northwestern Africa.

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Digitalis purpurea

Digitalis purpurea, the foxglove or common foxglove, is a toxic species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae, native to and widespread throughout most of temperate Europe.

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East Devon

East Devon is a local government district in Devon, England.

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East Devon Way

The East Devon Way is a long-distance footpath in England.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Erica cinerea

Erica cinerea, the bell heather, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae, native to western and central Europe.

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Erica tetralix

Erica tetralix, the cross-leaved heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to western Europe.

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Eurasian bullfinch

The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) is a small passerine bird in the finch family, Fringillidae.

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European badger

The European badger (Meles meles), also known as the Eurasian badger, is a badger species in the family Mustelidae native to Europe and West Asia and parts of Central Asia.

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European nightjar

The European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus), common goatsucker, Eurasian nightjar or just nightjar, is a crepuscular and nocturnal bird in the nightjar family that breeds across most of Europe and the Palearctic to Mongolia and Northwestern China.

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European stonechat

The European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a subspecies of the common stonechat.

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Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.

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Galium saxatile

Galium saxatile or heath bedstraw is a plant species of the genus Galium.

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Grayling (butterfly)

The grayling or rock grayling (Hipparchia semele) is a species in the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae.

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Greensand

Greensand or green sand is a sand or sandstone which has a greenish color.

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Honiton

Honiton is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, north east of Exeter in the county of Devon.

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Hyacinthoides non-scripta

Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant found in Atlantic areas from the north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant.

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Ilex aquifolium

Ilex aquifolium, the holly, common holly, English holly, European holly, or occasionally Christmas holly, is a species of flowering plant in the family Aquifoliaceae, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia.

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John Swete

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Jurassic Coast

The Jurassic Coast (also Dorset and East Devon Coast) is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England.

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Keuper marl

Keuper marl is a former and now deprecated term for multiple layers of mudstone and siltstone of Triassic age which occur beneath parts of the English Midlands and neighbouring areas e.g. Cheshire, Nottinghamshire, Devon, eastern Worcestershire and northern Yorkshire.

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Local nature reserve

Local nature reserve (LNR) is a statutory designation for certain nature reserves in Great Britain.

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Lowland heath

Lowland heath is a Biodiversity Action Plan habitat as it is a type of ancient wild landscape.

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Molinia caerulea

Molinia caerulea, known by the common name purple moor-grass, is a species of grass that is native to Europe, west Asia, and north Africa.

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Muhlenbergia

Muhlenbergia is a genus of plants in the grass family.

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Ownership

Ownership is the state or fact of legal possession and control over property, which may be any asset, tangible or intangible.

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Petal

Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.

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Polygala serpyllifolia

Polygala serpyllifolia, the heath milkwort, is a European native perennial of heaths and grassy places.

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Potentilla

Potentilla is a genus containing over 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae.

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Quercus robur

Quercus robur, the pedunculate oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae.

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Red fox

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.

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Roe deer

The roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer.

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Rubus fruticosus

Rubus fruticosus L. is the ambiguous name of a European blackberry species in the genus Rubus in the rose family.

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Rumex acetosella

Rumex acetosella, commonly known as red sorrel, sheep's sorrel, field sorrel and sour weed, is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Sepal

A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).

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Sidmouth

Sidmouth is a town on the English Channel in Devon, South West England, southeast of Exeter.

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Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, lit) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.

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Ulex europaeus

Ulex europaeus, the gorse, common gorse, furze or whin, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to Western Europe.

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Ulex gallii

Ulex gallii, the western gorse or dwarf furze is an evergreen shrub in the pea family (Fabaceae), native to the Atlantic coasts of western Europe: southern Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man, western France and the northern coast of Spain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Beacon_Hill

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Fire Beacon Hill, the Glossary

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Heaths of Devon

Local Nature Reserves in Devon

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