LADY’S SMOCK (_Cardamine pratensis_).—No doubt named because the pearly
flowers look on a moist meadow like linen bleaching. 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.
CARYOPHYLLEÆ
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.
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