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.
LABIATÆ
WATER FIGWORT—
(_Scrophularia Balbisii_). (_S. nodosa_) } Both common and not
beautiful.
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 fætida_).—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.
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