WILD LETTUCE (Lactuca muralis).-On heaps of flints.
MOUSEAR (Thrincia hirta).-Sulphur-coloured, small, and held to be an excellent remedy for whooping-cough.
OX-TONGUE (Helminthia echioides).-The rough leaf is well named.
HAWKBIT (Hieracium autumnale).
(Apargia hispida).-In cornfields.
SHEEP'S-BIT (Jasione montana).-Cranbury Common.
SOW THISTLE (Sonchus arvensis).
(S. palustris).
WHORTLEBERRY (Vaccinium Myrtillus).-Ampfield Wood.
CROSS-LEAVED HEATH (Erica Tetralix) Otterbourne Hill, the glory of early autumn.
BELL HEATHER (E. cinerea).
LING (Calluna vulgaris)
BIRD'S NEST (Monotropa Hypopitys).-South Lynch Wood.
ASH (Fraxinus excelsior).
PRIVET (Ligustrum vulgare).-Lane leading to the Itchen.
GENTIAN TRIBE
THE PERIWINKLE (Vinca minor).-Curiously irregular in blossoming. One spring the ground is covered with blue stars, another only with evergreen trails. Its only habitat here is Lincoln's Copse.
YELLOWWORT (Chlora perfoliata).-Ampfield Wood.
CENTAURY (Erythræa Centaurea).-Cranbury.
GENTIAN (Gentiana Pneunomanthe).-Baddesley bog, Cranbury.
(G. Amarella).-Pitt Down.
BOGBEAN (Menyanthes trifolium).-This lovely flower abides in the wet banks of the Itchen.
BINDWEED (Convolvulus sepium).-Pure and white.
(C. minor).-In shades of pink. Called lilies by the country-folk.
DODDER (Cuscuta Epithymum).-Red threads forming a beaded network over the furze.
(C. Trifolii).-Coarser fibres, smaller balls of blossom, in some years strangling the clover.
WOODY NIGHTSHADE (Solanum Dulcamara).-Purple flowers, red berries, beautiful everywhere.
(S. nigrum).-White-flowered, black-berried. At Cranbury, and occasionally elsewhere.
DEADLY NIGHTSHADE (Atropa belladonna).-Used to be near the front door at Hursley Park.
HENBANE (Hyoscyamus niger).-Formerly on the top of Compton Hill, and at the angle of the lane leading to Bunstead.
BORAGE TRIBE
MULLEIN (Verbascum nigrum). The handsome spikes
(V. Thapsus) everywhere.
(V. Blattaria).-Formerly in hedge of cottage at Silkstede.
GROMWELL (Lithospermum officinale).-Beside Winchester Road on way to Twyford.
FORGET-ME-NOT (Myosotis palustris).-Itchen meadows.
MOUSE-EAR, SCORPION GRASS (M. versicolor).- Stubblefields.
(M. sylvatica).-Ampfield.
(M. arvensis).-Everywhere.
COMFREY (Symphytum officinale).-Itchen banks.
HOUND'S TONGUE (Cynoglossum officinale).-Merdon Hill, but it has disappeared from Otterbourne.
PRIMROSE (Primula vulgaris).-Has any one observed the tiny blossoms of seedlings of the first year? Now and then there are stalked heads like oxlips, white or red varieties.
COWSLIP (P. veris).-Covering some few fields, and delightful for cowslip balls. Sweetest of scents.
YELLOW LOOSESTRIFE (Lysimachia vulgaris).-A beautiful shrub by the water-side.
MONEYWORT (L. Nummularia).-The Creeping-Jenny of rock-work, etc.
YELLOW PIMPERNEL (L. nemorum).-Covering the ground in woods with its delicate pentagon stars.
PIMPERNEL (Anagallis arvensis).-A beautiful blue variety once came up in the kitchen-garden at Otterbourne House, and prevailed for several years.
(A. tenella).-In the bogs towards Cuckoo Bushes.
LABIATÆ
WATER FIGWORT-
(Scrophularia Balbisii). Both common and not beautiful.
(S. nodosa)
FOXGLOVE (Digitalis purpurea).-All over the gravelly and peaty woods in splendid congregations of spires-called by the children poppies.
LESSER SNAPDRAGON (Antirrhinum Orontium).-Occasionally in gardens.
WILD SAGE (Salvia Verbenaca).-Ampfield.
SELF-HEAL (Prunella vulgaris).-Called Lady's Slipper.
SKULLCAP (Scutellaria galericulata).-Itchen bank.
(S. minor).-Cranbury hedge on Romsey Road.
BLACK HOREHOUND (Bellota fætida).-Hursley hedges.
BASTARD BALM (Melittis Melissophyllum).-Ampfield Wood.
BETONY (Stachys Betonica).
(S. palustris).
(S. sylvatica).
(S. arvensis).
RED ARCHANGEL (Galeopsis Tetrahit).-Near Chandler's Ford.
MOTHERWORT (Leonurus Cardiaca).-Alas, a dried specimen only remains of this handsome flower, which was sacrificed to a pig-stye on Otterbourne Hill.
WEASEL SNOUT or YELLOW NETTLE (Galeobdolon luteum).
WHITE ARCHANGEL, or BLIND NETTLE (Lamium album).-sometimes with a purple flower.
(L. purpureum).-Everywhere.
BUGLE (Ajuga reptans).-All over the woods.
GERMANDER, WOOD-SAGE (Teucrium Scorodonia).-Cranbury Wood.
BUGLOSS (Lycopsis arvensis).-Sand-pit, Boyatt Lane.
VIPER'S BUGLOSS (Echium vulgare).-Chalk-pits.
GREAT YELLOW TOADFLAX (Linaria vulgaris).-In most hedges.
IVY-LEAVED T. (L. Cymbalaria).-Old wall of Merdon Castle.
FLUELLEN (L. Elatine).-In stubble-fields.
(L. spuria).-In the same locality.
CREEPING T. (L. repens).-Chandler's Ford, and hedge of Romsey Road by Pot Kiln.
LESSER T. (L. minor).-Hursley.
SPEEDWELL (Veronica hederifolia).-Hursley, Ampfield.
(V. polita).
(V. Buxbaumii).-In fallow fields all the winter and spring.
(V. arvensis).
(V. officinalis).-Cranbury.
BIRD'S EYE (V. Chamvdrys).-Exquisite blue along the hedges on the chalk and clay.
(V. montana).-Ampfield.
(V. scutellata).
BROOKLIME (V. Beccabunga).-Esteemed a sovereign remedy for an old woman's bad leg.
(V. Anagallis).-Less common, but both frequent the river and the marshes.
EYEBRIGHT (Euphrasia officinalis).-Downs and heaths.