Sometimes double in rich ground.
HAIRY CARDAMINE (C. hirsuta). - Hursley.
YELLOW ROCKET (Barbarea vulgaris). - Road near Chandler's Ford. Near
bridge over Itchen.
WATERCRESS (Nasturtium officinale). - Everywhere in running water, and
now Poolhole is made into a nursery for it.
SHEPHERD'S PURSE (Thlaspi Bursa-pastoris). - Even the purses are to be
seen before we well know the tiny white flowers to be in blossom.
PENNYCRESS (T. arvense). - Larger, and uplifting a spike of rounded,
fan-shaped capsules.
WILD MIGNONETTE (Reseda lutea). - Mignonette all but the perfume -
chalk-pits.
DYER'S ROCKET (R. luteola). - Slenderer and more spiked; more common.
ROCK ROSE (Helianthemum vulgare). - There is an elegance and delicacy
of colour about this little cistus which renders it one of the most
charming of the many stars of the wayside, as it grows on Compton
Hill.
SWEET VIOLET (Viola odorata). - The colour, purple or white or pink,
seems to depend on the soil. White are the most common on the chalky
side, blue on the gravel.
MARSH V. (V. palustris). - Small and pale, with round leaves. Seen at
a spring in Otterbourne Park. (V. permixta). - Pinky - Kiln-yard,
Otterbourne.
DOG V. (V. canina). - In every wood, rich and handsome.
SNAKE V. (V. hirta). - More delicate and small, growing in turf -
Pleasure Grounds, Cranbury.
(V. Riviniana). - Hursley Park.
(V. Reichenbachiana). - Dane Lane. The three last are very probably
only sports of canina.
CREAM-COLOURED V. (V. lactea). - More skim-milk coloured, but known by
lanceolate leaves - cuckoo bushes.
PANSY (V. tricolor). - Everywhere in fallow fields. In rich soil the
upper petals become purple.
SUNDEW -
(Drosera rotundifolia) The curious, hairy, dewy leaves
(D. intermedia) and flowers that never open in full day are to be
found in the marshes near Hiltingbury.
MILKWORT (Polygala vulgaris). - Small and blue on Otterbourne Hill, as
a stitch in the embroidery of the turf; but larger, blue, pink, or
white in the water-meadows beside the Itchen, deserving the American
name of May-wings.
CARYOPHYLLEAE
DEPTFORD PINK (Dianthus Armeria). - This used to grow in a field near
Highbridge, but has been destroyed, either purposely or by fencing.
BLADDER CAMPION (Silene inflata). - Showing its white flowers and
swelling calyxes everywhere.
COMMON CATCHFLY (S. anglica). - Small and insignificant among corn.
RED CAMPION (Lychnis diurna). - Robins, as children call it, with the
bright pink in every hedge and the undergrowth in every copse.
WHITE C. (L. vespertina). - The white flowers make a feature in fallow
fields.
RAGGED ROBIN (L. Flos-cuculi). - The curiously slashed and divided
pink flowers flourish in the water-meadows by the Itchen.
CORN COCKLE (Agrostemma githago). - The beautiful purple blossoms, set
in long graceful calyxes, adorn the paths through wheat and barley
fields everywhere.
LESSER STITCHWORT (Maenchia erecta). -
CHICKWEED -
(Cerastiurn vulgatum) Early plant. Uninteresting
(C. arvense) tiny white flowers.
STARWORT (Stellaria Holostea). - The bright stitches of white
embroidery on our banks.
CHICKWEED (S. media.) - The chickweed dear to bird-keepers.
(S graminea). - Cobweb-like, almost invisible stems, and blossom with
a fairy brightness over the heaths.
(S. uliginosa). - The same adapted to marshes - Cuckoo Bushes,
Helmsley.
SANDWORT (Arenaria Rubra). - The little pink flowers crop up through
the gravel paths.
CORN SPURREY (Spergula arvensis). - Very long-spurred, with white
small blossoms.
(Alsine tenuifolia). - Roman road between Hursley and Sparsholt.
KNAWEL (Scleranthus annuus). - Hursley.
ST. JONN'S-WORT TRIBE
TUTSAN (Hypericum Androsaemum). - Handsome flower, and seeds - Cranbury
and Allbrook.
ST. JOHN'S-WORT (H. perforatum).
(H. dubium).
(H. hirsutum). - All frequent in the hedges.
(H. humifusum).
(H. pulchrum).
(H. Elodes). - Bogs near Cuckoo Bushes.
(H. quadrangulum).
MALLOW (Malva sylvestris). - Everywhere by roadsides, used to be
esteemed by old women as a healing "yarb."
MUSK M. (M. moschata). - A beautiful pink or white flower, grows all
over the park at Cranbury.
DWARF M. (M. rotundifolia). - Flower white, with purple streaks,
almost stemless, grows under a wall in Otterbourne Street.
SMALL-LEAVED LIME (Tilia parvifolia). - Hursley Park; avenue at
Brambridge, where four rows form three magnificent aisles.
CRANESBILL TRIBE
DOVE'S-FOOT CRANE'S-BILL (Geranium Columbinum). - Roadsides.
SHINING C. (G. lucidum). - Heap of stones, Hursley.
(G. dissectum). - Everywhere.
(G. Molle). - Otterbourne
HERB ROBERT C. (G. Robertianum). - Very common, and the crimson leaves
a great winter ornament.
BLOODY C. (G. phaeum). - Ladwell Hill, where it may be a remnant of a
cottage garden.
STORK'S-BILL (Erodium moschatum). - Otterbourne Hill.
(E. cicutarium). - Farley Mount.
WOOD-SORREL (Oxalis Acetosella). - This exquisite plant with delicate
flower and trefoil leaves grows on many mossy banks, especially on
one on the Ampfield Road.
HOLLY (Ilex Aquifolium). - The glory of the peaty woods. The people
distinguish the berried shrubs as holly, i.e. holy, those without
berries being holm.
SPINDLE-TREE (Euonymus europaeus). - Also called skewer wood. "A tree
that grows on purpose," as an old woman said of the material of her
pegs. The charming berries with their crimson hearts are plentiful
in King's Lane.
BUCKTHORN (Rhamnus Frangula). - Otterbourne Hill.
(R. catharticus) . - Hursley.
SYCAMORE (Acer Pseudo-platanus). - Road by Oakwood.
MAPLE (A. campestre). - Painting the hedges in autumn with its yellow
leaves.
LEGUMINOSE
FURZE (Ulex europaeus). - Brilliant on all the commons on gravel or
peat.
DWARF FURZE (U. nanus) - Rather less frequent.
BROOM (Genista scoparia). - Exquisite golden spires on the peat.
NEEDLE BROOM (G. anglica). - Cuckoo Bushes.
DYER'S GREENWEED (G. tinctoria). - In a ditch in a meadow on the
Ampfield Road.
REST HARROW (Ononis arvensis). - Pretty pink and white blossoms like
miniature lady-peas on a troublesome weed.
KIDNEY VETCH (Anthyllis Vulneraria) . - Borders of down.
BLACK MEDICK (Medicago lupulina). - Chalk-pit.
(M. denticulata) . - Ampfield.
MELILOT (Melilotus officinalis). - Kiln Lane, Otterbourne.
BIRDSFOOT (Ornithopus perpusillus). - Otterbourne Hill.
(Trigonella ornithopodioides). - Otterbourne.
TREFOIL ( Trifulium subterraneum).
(T. pratense).
DUTCH CLOVER (T. repens).
HOPDOWN (T. procumbens).
(T. minus).
(T. hybridum).
STRAWBERRY TREFOIL (T. fragiferum). - Once on canal bank.
MILK VETCH (Hippocrepis comosa). - Hursley.
BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL (Lotus corniculatus). - This golden or ruddy part
of the embroidery of the down is known to children as Ladies'
Slippers or Ladies' Fingers.
(L. major). - A taller variety.
TARE (Ervum hirsutum). - Tiny grey flowers.
(E. tetraspermum).
PURPLE VETCH (Vicia Cracca). - Throwing royal purple garlands over
every hedge in the lanes.
COMMON V. (V. sativa). - Very common, varying from crimson to dark
red.
WOOD V. (V. sepium). - A brilliant little red flower.
GRASS VETCHLING (Lathyrus Nissolia). - Found once in a bank near
Chandler's Ford; once at Silkstede.
WOOD V. (L. sylvestris). - Doubtful, but something like it grows in
Sparrow Grove near the waterworks.
YELLOW V. (L. pratensis). - Common, mixed with grass.
HEATH PEA (Orobus tuberosus). - On the peat soil.
ROSE TRIBE
BLACKTHORN (Prunus spinosa). - It is believed that no hurt is so hard
of healing as from a blackthorn. Also blackthorn winter is supposed
to bring fresh cold in spring, when the bushes almost look as if
clothed by hoar-frost.
WILD CHERRY (P. Avium). - The fine, tall, shapely trees put on their
bridal show in the woods of Cranbury and Ampfield.
BIRD-CHERRY (P. Padus). - Not very common. There is one in the
grounds at Otterbourne House, but it is not certainly wild.
MEADOW-SWEET (Spiraea Ulmaria). - Raising its creamy cymes of blossoms
in every ditch where there is a little moisture.
DROPWORT (S. Filipendula). - On the borders of Pitt Down and Crab
Wood.
AGRIMONY (Agrimonia Eupatoria). - Long yellow spikes in all dry
hedges.
BURNET (Sanguisorba officinalis). - Chalk-pit by Sparrow Grove, also
Dane Lane, where the green balls with tiny red blossoms may be found,
and sometimes the green and crimson burnet moth.
BARREN STRAWBERRY (Potentilla Fragariastrum). - How often has "mustn't
pick the strawberry blossom" been quoted to this delusive little
white cinquefoil in early spring, when it peeps out among leaves very
like strawberry-leaves in the hedge.
TORMENTIL (P. Tormentilla). - This is now ranged among the
cinquefoils, though it has only four petals, owing perhaps to the
very dry barren heathy soil it brightens with its stars.
CINQUEFOIL (P. repens). - A smiling pentagon star by the wayside.
SILVER-WEED or GOOSE-GRASS (P. anserina). - Why dedicated to geese,
even in Latin, it is hard to say. Silver-weed is more appropriate to
the silver-grey leaves that border road-sides, sometimes with golden
flowers.
MARSH CINQUEFOIL (Comarum palustre). - A prize in Baddesley bog,
unless drains have banished its pure flower.
WOOD STRAWBERRY (Fragaria vesca). - Profuse in Cranbury and on banks
of railway at Sparrow Grove.
WILD RASPBERRY (Rubus Idaeus). - Cranbury, near the road.
WILD BLACKBERRY (R. fruticosus). - Brambles, of course, everywhere,
but it is impossible to pass them without a tribute to their beauty,
in flower, in fruit, and, above all, in autumn foliage.
DEWBERRY (R. caesius). - What is probably dewberry grows by the
roadway through Mallibar Copse.
(R. leucostratus). - Roman Road and Cranbury Common.
HERB BENNET (Geum urbanum). - Insignificant yellow flower.
WATER AVENS (G. rivale). - Quaint little ruddy half-expanded blossoms,
called by the villagers Granny's Night-caps.
(G. intermedium). - Really intermediate - probably hybrid. Found once
in a copse between Boyatt Lane and the Southampton Road.
LADY'S MANTLE (Alchemilla arvensis). - Crabwood.
SWEET-BRIAR (Rosa rubiginosa). - Copse by pond, Cranbury.
DOG-ROSE (R. canina). - With handsomer hips.
WHITE DOG-ROSE (R. arvensis).
HAWTHORN (Crataegus monogyna). - Who does not love when the blossoms
cover them like snow-drift? Well are they called May.
MOUNTAIN ASH (Pyrus Aucuparia). - This rowan-tree of Scotland has no
weird horrors here, but it is the ornament of the woods, with white
cymes, red berries, and feathery leaves.
CRAB-TREE (P. Malus). - Romsey Road, where the pinky blossoms show
opposite Cranbury Gate.
WHITEBEAM (P. Aria). - Grey or white leaves shine out in Ampfield
Wood.
PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE (Lythrum salicaria). - Ophelia's long purples adorn
the water-courses in the Itchen mead.
WILLOW-HERB TRIBE
ROSEBAY WILLOW-HERB (Epilobium angustifolium). - This splendid flower,
rose-coloured, white-pistilled and red-leaved, spreads in sheets in
Cranbury Copse and on railway cuttings, at Cuckoo Bushes, and in
Ampfield Wood.
CODLINS-AND-CREAM (E. hirsutum). - Adorning wet places.
SMALL WILLOW-HERB -
(E. parvaeorurn) Troublesome though pretty weeds in the garden.
(E. tetragonum)
(E. roseum)
(E. montanum). - Found at Ampfield.
ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE (Circaea lutetiana). - A graceful, delicate-
looking plant of universal occurrence.
WATER STARWORT (Callitriche verna). - Ponds.
MARESTAIL (Hippuris vulgaris). - Waves with the current of the stream
in the Itchen.
WHITE BRYONY (Bryonia dioica). - Vine-like leaves wreathe round in the
hedges, and the pale, whitish flowers give place to graceful clusters
of red berries.
GOOSEBERRY (Ribes Grossularia). - Lane towards Brambridge.
SAXIFRAGEA
ORPINE (Sedum Telephium). - Also called Midsummer May; grows in
Otterbourne Park, and a large bunch on the Romsey Road. An old woman
described having tried the augury, having laid the plants in pairs on
Midsummer Eve, naming them after pairs of sweethearts. Those that
twisted away from each other showed inconstancy!
STONECROP (S. anglicum). - Otterbourne Hill.
(S. acre). - Hursley.
HOUSELEEK (Sempervivum tectorum). - Also called Sin-green, or some
word so sounding. It is not permitted to blow upon the roof on which
it grows, for fear of ill-luck, which is strange, as it has been
Jupiter's beard, Thor's beard, and St. George's beard, and in Germany
is thought to preserve from thunder.
SAXIFRAGE (Saxifraga tridactylites). - Hursley.
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 (AEgopodium Podagra). - Handsome leaves, but a troublesome
weed.
PIGNUT (Bunium flexuosum). - The delicate, lace-like, umbellate
flowers in all the woods.
WATER DROPWORT (OEnanthe fistulosa). - Banks of Itchen.
WATER HEMLOCK (OE. crocata). - Itchen banks.
WILD CARROT (Daucus Carota).
BURNET SAXIFRAGE (Pimpinella Sax Jraga). - Hursley.
COW PARSLEY (Chaerophyllum 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.
COMPOSITAE
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. Jacobaea). - 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.
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 (Erythraea 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.
LABIATAE
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 faetida). - 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.
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 (Lathraea 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 europaerus). - 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).