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.