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_)