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RED EYEBRIGHT (Bartsia Odontites).-woods.

RED RATTLE (Pedicularis palustris).-Itchen meadows.

(P. sylvatica).-Otterbourne Hill.

YELLOW RATTLE (Rhinanthus Crista-galli).-Itchen meadows.

YELLOW COW-WHEAT (Melampyrum pratense).-Otterbourne Park.

TOOTHWORT (Lathræa squamaria).-South Lynch Wood.

BROOMRAPE (Orobanche repens).-Mallibar roadway.

(O. elatior).-Sparrow Grove.

(O. minor).-Clover-fields, Otterbourne. Wonderful brown parasites, all three.

VERVEIN (Verbena officinalis).-Road-sides.

GIPSYWORT (Lycopus europærus).-Dell Copse and all bogs.

HORSE MINT (Mentha sylvestris).

(M. hirsuta).

(M. sativa).

(M. arvensis).

THYME (Thymus Serpyllum).-On many a bank does the wild thyme grow, with its perfume delicious.

MARJORAM (Origanum vulgare).-Banks of Winchester Road.

MONKEY FLOWER (Mimulus Luteus)-Bank of Itchen Canal, where it has spread considerably, though probably a stray.

BASIL THYME (Calamintha vulgaris).-Stubble-fields show this lovely little blue flower with a white crescent on the lip.

(C. menthifolia).-Merdon Castle.

BASIL (C. Clinopodium).-Itchen.

CAT MINT (Nepeta Cataria).-Hedge towards Stoneham.

GROUND IVY (N. Glechoma).-Everywhere in woods.

PLANTAIN TRIBE

KNOCKHEADS (Plantago major).

LESSER PLANTAIN (P. media).

(P. lanceolata).

STAGSHORN (P. Coronopus).-Otterbourne Hill.

GOOD KING HENRY (Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus).

GOOSEFOOT (C. album).

(C. urbicum).

DOCK (Rumex sanguineus).

(R. obtusfolius).

(R. pratensis).

WATER DOCK (R. Hydrolapathum).-Fit table-cloth for the butterfly's table.

SORREL (R. Acetosa).

LESSER SORREL (R. Acetosella).-Elegant and slender, making red clouds all over Cranbury.

BUCKWHEAT (Polygonum fagopyrum).-For several seasons in a meadow by Brooklyn. Now vanished.

KNOTGRASS (P. Convolvulus).

BLACK BINDWEED (P. aviculare).

WATER PEPPER (P. Hydropiper).

PERSICARIA (P. Persicaria).

(P. dumetorum).-Ampfield.

BASTARD TOADFLAX (Thesium linophyllum).-Crab Wood.

SUN SPURGE (Euphorbia Helioscopia).-Corn-fields.

WOOD S. (E. amygdaloides).-Cranbury and Otterbourne Park.

SMALL S. (E. Peplus).

(E. exigua).

DOG'S MERCURY (Mercurialis perennis).-First to clothe the banks with fresh vernal green.

NETTLE (Urtica dioica).

SMALL NETTLE (U. nana).

HOD (Humulus Lupulus).-If not native, it has taken well to the hedges, and clothes them with graceful wreaths.

ELM (Ulmus campestris)-Largest of spreading trees.

OAK (Quercus Robur).-Acorns differ on many trees. Five varieties of Cynips produce different oak-apples. Oak is still worn on the 29th of May, and it is called Shik-shak Day. Why?

BEECH (Fagus sylvatica).-Beautiful at Ampfield and South Lynch, and permitting only a select few plants to grow under its shade.

HAZEL (Corylus Avellana).

ALDER (Alnus glutinosa).

BIRCH (Betula alba).-Silver-leaved and white-barked, making fairy groves.

ASPEN (Populus tremula).-Aps, the people call it. The catkins are like caterpillars.

WILLOW or WITHY (Salix Caprea).-Our yellow goslings in spring, as they shoot from their silver rabbit-tail catkins, and our palms on Palm Sunday, though it is unlucky to bring one home earlier.

(S. triandra).-Near the old church, Otterbourne.

(S. rubra).

ROUND-LEAVED W. (S. aurita).

SALLOW W. (S. cinerea).

WHITE W. (S. alba).

(S. fragilis).

DWARF W. (S. repens).-Bogs towards Baddesley.

OSIER W. (S. viminalis).-Ampfield.

JUNIPER (Juniperus communis).-Above Standon on Down.

YEW (Taxus baccata).-Scattered in hedges, or singly all over the chalk district.

REEDMACE (Typha latifolia).-Itchen. Noble plant, commonly, but incorrectly, called bulrush.

BUR-REED (Sparganium ramosum).-With fertile flowers like prickly balls.

LORDS-AND-LADIES or CUCKOO-PINT (Arum maculatum).-Showing their heads under every hedge. The lords have a red column, the ladies a white.

DUCKWEED (Lemna trisulca).

GREAT WATER PLANTAIN (Alisma Plantago).-Stately ornament of bogs.

THE LILY TRIBE

GARLIC (Allium ursinum).-On road to Baddesley.

CROW G. (A. vineale).-Chalk ridges, if not destroyed by waterworks.

FLAG (Iris pseudacorus).-Itchen banks.

STINKING F. (I. fætidissima).-Not common, but in two copses, one at Cranbury and the other on the north of King's Lane.

DAFFODIL (Narcissus Pseudonarcissus).-Dell Copse, which it covers with the glory of the "dancing daffodil"; also plantation near Romsey Road.

BLACK BRYONY (Tamus communis).-Wreaths of shiny leaves.

SOLOMON'S SEAL (Polygonatum multiflorum).-Cranbury Wood.

BUTCHER'S BROOM (Ruscus aculeatus).-Otterbourne Hill.

BLUEBELL (Hyacinthus nonscriptus).-Masses in the woods.

WOODRUSH (Luzula sylvatica).-Graceful brown blossoms.

PYRAMIDAL ORCHIS (Orchis pyramidalis).-Chalk-pit by Sparrow Grove.

FOOL'S O. (O. Morio).-Cranbury.

PURPLE O. (O. mascula).-Local name, Dead Man's Fingers.

ROMSEY O. (O. incarnata).-Itchen meadows.

BROAD-LEAVED O. (O. latifolia).-Itchen meadows.

SPOTTED O. (O maculata).

DWARF O. (O. ustulata).-Downs by South Lynch.

SWEET O. (Gymnadenia conopsea).-Itchen meadows.

BUTTERFLY O. (Habenaria bifolia).-Sparrow Grove.