YELLOW ROCKET (Barbarea vulgaris).-Road near Chandler's Ford. Near bridge over Itchen.
WATERCRESS (Nasturtium officinale).-Everywhere in running water, and now Poolhole is made into a nursery for it.
SHEPHERD'S PURSE (Thlaspi Bursa-pastoris).-Even the purses are to be seen before we well know the tiny white flowers to be in blossom.
PENNYCRESS (T. arvense).-Larger, and uplifting a spike of rounded, fan-shaped capsules.
WILD MIGNONETTE (Reseda lutea).-Mignonette all but the perfume-chalk-pits.
DYER'S ROCKET (R. luteola).-Slenderer and more spiked; more common.
ROCK ROSE (Helianthemum vulgare).-There is an elegance and delicacy of colour about this little cistus which renders it one of the most charming of the many stars of the wayside, as it grows on Compton Hill.
SWEET VIOLET (Viola odorata).-The colour, purple or white or pink, seems to depend on the soil. White are the most common on the chalky side, blue on the gravel.
MARSH V. (V. palustris).-Small and pale, with round leaves. Seen at a spring in Otterbourne Park. (V. permixta).-Pinky- Kiln-yard, Otterbourne.
DOG V. (V. canina).-In every wood, rich and handsome.
SNAKE V. (V. hirta).-More delicate and small, growing in turf-Pleasure Grounds, Cranbury.
(V. Riviniana).-Hursley Park.
(V. Reichenbachiana).-Dane Lane. The three last are very probably only sports of canina.
CREAM-COLOURED V. (V. lactea).-More skim-milk coloured, but known by lanceolate leaves-cuckoo bushes.
PANSY (V. tricolor).-Everywhere in fallow fields. In rich soil the upper petals become purple.
SUNDEW-
(Drosera rotundifolia) The curious, hairy, dewy leaves
(D. intermedia) and flowers that never open in full day are to be found in the marshes near Hiltingbury.
MILKWORT (Polygala vulgaris).-Small and blue on Otterbourne Hill, as a stitch in the embroidery of the turf; but larger, blue, pink, or white in the water-meadows beside the Itchen, deserving the American name of May-wings.
CARYOPHYLLEÆ
DEPTFORD PINK (Dianthus Armeria).-This used to grow in a field near Highbridge, but has been destroyed, either purposely or by fencing.
BLADDER CAMPION (Silene inflata).-Showing its white flowers and swelling calyxes everywhere.
COMMON CATCHFLY (S. anglica).-Small and insignificant among corn.
RED CAMPION (Lychnis diurna).-Robins, as children call it, with the bright pink in every hedge and the undergrowth in every copse.
WHITE C. (L. vespertina).-The white flowers make a feature in fallow fields.
RAGGED ROBIN (L. Flos-cuculi).-The curiously slashed and divided pink flowers flourish in the water-meadows by the Itchen.
CORN COCKLE (Agrostemma githago).-The beautiful purple blossoms, set in long graceful calyxes, adorn the paths through wheat and barley fields everywhere.
LESSER STITCHWORT (Mænchia erecta).-
CHICKWEED-
(Cerastiurn vulgatum) Early plant. Uninteresting
(C. arvense) tiny white flowers.
STARWORT (Stellaria Holostea).-The bright stitches of white embroidery on our banks.
CHICKWEED (S. media.)-The chickweed dear to bird-keepers.
(S graminea).-Cobweb-like, almost invisible stems, and blossom with a fairy brightness over the heaths.
(S. uliginosa).-The same adapted to marshes-Cuckoo Bushes, Helmsley.
SANDWORT (Arenaria Rubra).-The little pink flowers crop up through the gravel paths.
CORN SPURREY (Spergula arvensis).-Very long-spurred, with white small blossoms.
(Alsine tenuifolia).-Roman road between Hursley and Sparsholt.
KNAWEL (Scleranthus annuus).-Hursley.
ST. JONN'S-WORT TRIBE
TUTSAN (Hypericum Androsæmum).-Handsome flower, and seeds- Cranbury and Allbrook.
ST. JOHN'S-WORT (H. perforatum).
(H. dubium).
(H. hirsutum).-All frequent in the hedges.
(H. humifusum).
(H. pulchrum).
(H. Elodes).-Bogs near Cuckoo Bushes.
(H. quadrangulum).
MALLOW (Malva sylvestris).-Everywhere by roadsides, used to be esteemed by old women as a healing "yarb."
MUSK M. (M. moschata).-A beautiful pink or white flower, grows all over the park at Cranbury.
DWARF M. (M. rotundifolia).-Flower white, with purple streaks, almost stemless, grows under a wall in Otterbourne Street.
SMALL-LEAVED LIME (Tilia parvifolia).-Hursley Park; avenue at Brambridge, where four rows form three magnificent aisles.
CRANESBILL TRIBE
DOVE'S-FOOT CRANE'S-BILL (Geranium Columbinum).-Roadsides.
SHINING C. (G. lucidum).-Heap of stones, Hursley.
(G. dissectum).-Everywhere.
(G. Molle).-Otterbourne
HERB ROBERT C. (G. Robertianum).-Very common, and the crimson leaves a great winter ornament.
BLOODY C. (G. phæum).-Ladwell Hill, where it may be a remnant of a cottage garden.
STORK'S-BILL (Erodium moschatum).-Otterbourne Hill.
(E. cicutarium).-Farley Mount.
WOOD-SORREL (Oxalis Acetosella).-This exquisite plant with delicate flower and trefoil leaves grows on many mossy banks, especially on one on the Ampfield Road.
HOLLY (Ilex Aquifolium).-The glory of the peaty woods. The people distinguish the berried shrubs as holly, i.e. holy, those without berries being holm.
SPINDLE-TREE (Euonymus europæus).-Also called skewer wood. "A tree that grows on purpose," as an old woman said of the material of her pegs. The charming berries with their crimson hearts are plentiful in King's Lane.
BUCKTHORN (Rhamnus Frangula).-Otterbourne Hill.
(R. catharticus) .-Hursley.
SYCAMORE (Acer Pseudo-platanus).-Road by Oakwood.
MAPLE (A. campestre).-Painting the hedges in autumn with its yellow leaves.
LEGUMINOSE
FURZE (Ulex europæus).-Brilliant on all the commons on gravel or peat.
DWARF FURZE (U. nanus)-Rather less frequent.
BROOM (Genista scoparia).-Exquisite golden spires on the peat.
NEEDLE BROOM (G. anglica).-Cuckoo Bushes.
DYER'S GREENWEED (G. tinctoria).-In a ditch in a meadow on the Ampfield Road.
REST HARROW (Ononis arvensis).-Pretty pink and white blossoms like miniature lady-peas on a troublesome weed.
KIDNEY VETCH (Anthyllis Vulneraria) .-Borders of down.
BLACK MEDICK (Medicago lupulina).-Chalk-pit.