GOLDEN S. (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium).-Wet places in Lincoln's Copse.
MARSH PENNYWORT (Hydrocotyle vulgaris).-Bogs at Cuckoo Bushes.
WOOD SANICLE (Sanicula vulgaris).-In all the copses.
UMBELLIFERA
GOUTWEED (Ægopodium Podagra).-Handsome leaves, but a troublesome weed.
PIGNUT (Bunium flexuosum).-The delicate, lace-like, umbellate flowers in all the woods.
WATER DROPWORT (nanthe fistulosa).-Banks of Itchen.
WATER HEMLOCK (. crocata).-Itchen banks.
WILD CARROT (Daucus Carota).
BURNET SAXIFRAGE (Pimpinella Sax Jraga).-Hursley.
COW PARSLEY (Chærophyllum sylvestre).-Boys may be seen bearing home bundles for their rabbits.
SHEPHERD'S NEEDLE (Scandix Pecten Veneis).-In cornfields.
HEDGE PARSLEY (Torilis infesta).-Hursley.
HEMLOCK (Conium maculatum).
IVY (Hedera Helix).-Everywhere.
DOGWOOD (Cornus sanguinea).-The red and purple of the fading leaves mixed with the yellow of the maples make every hedge a study.
MISTLETOE (Viscum album).-Grows on hawthorns in Hursley Park, and on apple-trees at Otterbourne.
MOSCATEL (Adoxa Moschatellina).-This dainty little green-headed plant is one of the harbingers of spring.
ELDER (Sambucus nigra).-In most hedges, though its honours are gone as the staple of elder-wine, and still better of elder-flower water, which village sages used to brew, and which was really an excellent remedy for weak eyes.
GUELDER-ROSE (Viburnum Opulus).-Equally handsome whether white-garlanded cymes of blossoms or scarlet berries, waxen when partly ripe.
WAYFARING-TREE (V. Lantana).-Not quite so common, but handsome, with white flowers and woolly leaves.
HONEYSUCKLE (Lonicera Periclymenum).-To be seen in full glory waving on the top of a holly-tree, and when the stem has become amalgamated with a bough, circling it like the staff of Esculapius, it is precious to boys.
(L. Caprifolium).-Noted as once found, but not lately.
MADDER TRIBE
MADDER (Rubia peregrina).-Tiny flowers-Otterbourne Hill.
CROSSWORT or MUGWORT (Galium Cruciatum).-Roadside, Allbrook.
YELLOW LADY'S BEDSTRAW (G. verum).-Everywhere.
MARSH B. (G. palustre).-Cuckoo Bushes.
(G. uliginosum).-Gravel-pit, Otterbourne.
WHITE BEDSTRAW (G. erectum).-Winchester Road.
CLEAVERS or CLIDERS (G. Aparine).-Everywhere.
ROUGH (G. Mollugo).-Cornfields.
WOODRUFF (Asperula odorata).-Sparrow Grove.
(A. cynanchica).-Chalk downs.
FIELD MADDER (Sherardia arvensis).-Otterbourne Hill.
VALERIAN (Valeriana dioica).-Itchen meadows.
LESSER V. (V. officinalis).-Itchen meadows.
LAMB'S LETTUCE (Valerianella olitorium).-Downs and stubble-fields.
TEASEL (Dipsacus sylvestris).-Grand ornament to the hedges. On a fallow field it came up in quantities, as if sown.
DEVIL'S-BIT SCABIOUS (Scabiosa succisa).-Makes grey clouds all over Cranbury Park.
COMMON S. (S. arvensis).-Everywhere.
LESSER S. (S. Columbaria).-Malabar wayside.
HARE BELL (Campanula rotundifolia).-Otterbourne Hill.
NETTLE-LEAVED BELLFLOWER (C. Trachelium).-Road-sides.
CLUSTERED B. (C. glomerata).-Pitt Down.
COMPOSITÆ
THISTLES (Carduus nutans).
(C. tenuifolia).
MILK THISTLE (Silybum marianum).-Once in Boyatt Lane.
(S crispus).
(Cnicus lanceolatus).
(C. palustris).
(C. arvensis).
STEMLESS T. (C. acaulis).-Little purple stars on the downs.
CARLINE (Carlina vulgaris).
BURDOCK (Arctium Lappa).-Everywhere.
(A. tomentosa).
SAW-WORT (Serratula tinctoria).-Copses round King's Lane.
KNAPWEED (Centaurea nigra).-Everywhere.
(C. Cyanea).-In fields about Hursley occasionally.
(C. Scabiosa).-Hursley.
CORN MARIGOLD (Chrysanthemum segetum).-Sometimes plentiful, but dependent on crops.
OX-EYE DAISY (C. Leucanthemum).-Everywhere.
CAMOMILE (Pyrethrum inodorum).-Everywhere.
TANSY (Tanacetum vulgaris).-King's Lane.
COMMON CHAMOMILE (Anthemis nobilis).
(A. arvensis).
(A. Cotula).
YARROW (Achillea Millefolium).
SNEEZEWORT (A. Ptarmica).-Southampton Road sides.
WORMWOOD (Artemisia vulgaris).-Kiln Lane turns to Moat House.
CUDWEED (Gnaphalium minimum).
(G. germanium).
(G. sylvaticum).
GROUNDSEL (Senecio vulgaris).
(S. sylvaticus).
RAGWORT (S. Jacobæa).-Often covered with black and yellow caterpillars.
(S. viscosus).-Marked as found at Hursley.
(S. aquaticus).
FLEABANE (Inula Conyza).-Southampton Road.
(I. Pulicaria).
DAISY (Bellis perennis).
BLUE FLEABANE (Erigeron acris).
GOLDENROD (Solidago Virga-aurea).-Wood-paths and road-sides.
COLTSFOOT (Tussilago Farfara).-In all chalky fields.
BUTTERBUR (Petasites vulgaris).-Banks of Itchen.
BUR-MARIGOLD (Bidens cernua).-It used to be in a marsh on the Romsey Road, but has not been seen lately.
HEMP AGRIMONY (Eupatorium cannabinum).-In all hedges near moisture.
CHICORY (Cichorium Intybus).-Now and then showing its pretty blue flower on the roadside.
NIPPLEWORT (Lapsana communis).-Too frequent weed.
DANDELION (Leontodon Taraxacum).-How can its praise for glorious brilliant flowers and stems fit for chains be passed by, or for the "clocks" that furnish auguries!
(L. autumnalis).-Is this a separate species, or the dandelion blowing in autumn?
GO-TO-BED AT NOON (Tragopogon pratensis).-Beautiful when open early in the day, beautiful when the long calyx is closed, and most beautiful with its handsome winged pappus-King's Lane, Otterbourne Churchyard.