BEE O. (Ophrys apifera).-Railway banks and South Lynch.
FLY O. (O. muscifera).-South Lynch Down.
LADY'S TRESSES (Spiranthes autumnalis).-Cranbury lawn, but fitful in appearing.
TWAYBLADE (Listera ovata).-In hedges and woods.
BIRD'S-NEST ORCHIS (L. Nidus-avis).-Only under beeches.
HELLEBORINE (Epipactis latifolia).-Here and there in hedges.
(E. grandiflora).-Under beeches.
(E. palustris).-Chalk-pit.
REEDS
BOGRUSH (L. campestris).-Little rush.
(L. pilosa).-Ampfield Wood.
RUSH (Juncus conglomeratus).-The days of rush-lights are gone by, but rush-baskets for flowers and helmets are made by the children, and the white pith, when pressed, is made up into devices.
(F. effusus)
(F. glaucus) All in Itchen meadows.
(F. acutiflorus)
(F. squamosus)
BEAKRUSH (Rhynchospora fusca).
SINGLE BULRUSH (Scirpus lacustris).
(S. sylvatica).-Marsh near Baddesley Road.
(S. setaceus).
COTTON GRASS (Eriophorum angustifolium).-The soft cottony or silky heads are beautiful on the Itchen roads.
SEDGES (Carex pulicaris).
(C. acuta).-Copses.
(C. paniculata).-Itchen Canal.
(C. riparia).-Dell Copse.
STAR SEDGE (C. stellulata).-Copses.
(C. verna).
(C. acuta).-A lovely black and yellow fringe to the Itchen Canal.
(C. pallescens).-Damp places.
(C. paludosa).-Banks of Itchen Canal.
(C. sylvatica).-Cranbury.
(C. remota).-Boyatt Lane.
GRASSES
SWEET MEADOW GRASS (Anthoxanthum odoratum).
CANARY G. (Phalaris canariensis).-A stray.
FOXTAIL G. (Alopecurus pratensis).
(A. agrestis).
(A. geniculatus).
CAT-TAIL G. (Phleum pratense).
DOG'S G. (Agrostis canina).
(A. alba).
(A. vulgaris).
REED (Arundo Phragmites).-Waving brown tassels, beautiful for adornments-Itchen banks, and hedge of allotments on Otterbourne Hill.
MILLET GRASS (Milium effusum).
HAIR G. (Aira flexuosa).
(A. æspitosa).-Tufts on the hill, Otterbourne.
WILD OATS (Avena fatua).-Grown far more common than formerly.
(A. strigosa).
(A. pratensis).
(A. flavescens).
SOFT GRASS (Holcus mollis).
MELICK (Melica cærulea).-Cranbury.
(M. uniflora).-Dell Copse.
WHORL GRASS (Catabrosa aquatica).-The moat, Otterbourne.
(Glyceria nutans).-The moat.
MEADOW G. (Poa rigida).
(P. annua).
(P. nemoralis).
(P. pratensis).
(P. trivialis).
QUAKER'S G. (Briza media).
(B. minor).
DOG'S-TAIL G. (Cynosurus cristatus).
COCK'S-FOOT G. (Dactylis glomerata).
FESCUE (Festuca ovina).
(F. pratensis).
(F. lolacea).
BROME GRASS (Bromus giganteus).-Cranbury.
(B. asper).
(B. sterilis).
(B. racemosus).
(B. mollis).
(B. arvensis).
COUCH G. (Triticum caninum).
(T. repens).
RYE G. or MOUSE BARLEY (Lolium perenne).-Also Darnel.
FERNS, ETC.
BRACKEN (Pteris aquilina).-All over Cranbury.
HARD FERN (Blechnum boreale).-Mallibar Road between Albrook and Highbridge.
WALL-RUE (Asplenium Ruta-muraria).
BLACK MAIDENHAIR (A. Trichomanes).-Used to be on tombstones in old churchyard, Otterbourne.
LADY FERN (Athyrium Filix fæmina).-Cranbury.
(Ceterach officinale).-Merdon Castle.
HART'S TONGUE (Scolopendrium officinale).
(Polystichum angulare).-Cranbury.
MALE FERN (Lastrea Filix-mas).
(L. spinulosa).
(L. dilatata).-Otterbourne Park.
(L. thalipteris).-Cranbury.
HAY F. (L. Oreopteris).-Road to Baddesley.
POLYPODY (Polypodium vulgare).
ADDER'S TONGUE (Ophioglossum vulgare).-Field called Pleasure Grounds, Otterbourne.
HORSETAILS (Equisetum arvense).
(E. maximum).
Footnotes:
{17} Hursley ceased to be a Peculiar about the year 1840.
{25} Hurstleigh, as it was originally spelt, is derived from Hurst, a wood, Legh or Lea, a meadow or open place in a wood.
{28} The General Biographer's Dictionary says 51 in all.
{32} So says the Register, but I suspect erroneously. Ardington was the place in which the family of Clarkes was settled. Sir Edward Clarke, probably the son of Sir Thomas, was High Sheriff of Berks in 1626 (Marsh).
{34} Halliwell's dictionary gives haydiggle (Somerset) as meaning high spirits, and once a country dance.
{36} From Father Gasquet's essay on the Recusants in The Old English Bible.
{53}Commentaries, vol. ii. p. 83, 8vo.
{54} See Commentaries, as before. N.B. Among the Garrows, a people of Hindostan, the youngest daughter inherits the property of her family. See Asiatic Researches, vol. iii. p. 34, 8vo.
{56} Blackstone's Commentaries, vol. ii. chap. v.