RAGWORT (S. Jacobæa).-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.
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 (Erythræa 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.
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.
WATER FIGWORT-
(Scrophularia Balbisii). Both common and not beautiful.
