John Keble's Parishes

(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.

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.