Message text written by INTERNET:DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >I just came across this term marking a line point on 2 adjoining plats..."small bastard box". About the most likely, I guess, would be what one finds in the Oxford English Dictionary, after looking under box (the tree/bush): A genus (Buxus) of small evergreen trees or shrubs of the N.O. Euphorbiaceæ; specially B. sempervirens, the Common or Evergreen Box-tree, a native of Europe and Asia; a shrub with deep-green leaves of a thick leathery texture. It is much used in ornamental gardening, esp. in a dwarfed variety (dwarf or ground box) for the edgings of flower-beds. and a little further down, evidently not a relative, but what must be a look-alike: c. Applied with distinguishing epithet to several other plants, as bastard box, Polygala chamæbuxus; One imagines this species will be found in the Carolinas. If not, I have no clue. John Lyon