CORN COCKLE (_Agrostemma githago_).—The beautiful purple blossoms, set in
long graceful calyxes, adorn the paths through wheat and barley fields
everywhere.
LESSER STITCHWORT (_Mænchia erecta_).—
CHICKWEED—
(_Cerastiurn vulgatum_) Early plant. Uninteresting
(_C. arvense_) tiny white flowers.
STARWORT (_Stellaria Holostea_).—The bright stitches of white embroidery
on our banks.
CHICKWEED (_S. media._)—The chickweed dear to bird-keepers.
(_S graminea_).—Cobweb-like, almost invisible stems, and blossom with a
fairy brightness over the heaths.
(_S. uliginosa_).—The same adapted to marshes—Cuckoo Bushes, Helmsley.
SANDWORT (_Arenaria Rubra_).—The little pink flowers crop up through the
gravel paths.
CORN SPURREY (_Spergula arvensis_).—Very long-spurred, with white small
blossoms.
(_Alsine tenuifolia_).—_Roman_ road between Hursley and Sparsholt.
KNAWEL (_Scleranthus annuus_).—Hursley.
ST. JOHN’S-WORT TRIBE
TUTSAN (_Hypericum Androsæmum_).—Handsome flower, and seeds—Cranbury and
Allbrook.
ST. JOHN’S-WORT (_H. perforatum_).
(_H. dubium_).
(_H. hirsutum_).—All frequent in the hedges.
(_H. humifusum_).
(_H. pulchrum_).
(_H. Elodes_).—Bogs near Cuckoo Bushes.
(_H. quadrangulum_).
MALLOW (_Malva sylvestris_).—Everywhere by roadsides, used to be esteemed
by old women as a healing “yarb.”
MUSK M. (_M. moschata_).—A beautiful pink or white flower, grows all over
the park at Cranbury.
DWARF M. (_M. rotundifolia_).—Flower white, with purple streaks, almost
stemless, grows under a wall in Otterbourne Street.
SMALL-LEAVED LIME (_Tilia parvifolia_).—Hursley Park; avenue at
Brambridge, where four rows form three magnificent aisles.
CRANESBILL TRIBE
DOVE’S-FOOT CRANE’S-BILL (_Geranium Columbinum_).—Roadsides.
SHINING C. (_G. lucidum_).—Heap of stones, Hursley.
(_G. dissectum_).—Everywhere.
(_G. Molle_).—Otterbourne
HERB ROBERT C. (_G. Robertianum_).—Very common, and the crimson leaves a
great winter ornament.
BLOODY C. (_G. phæum_).—Ladwell Hill, where it may be a remnant of a
cottage garden.
STORK’S-BILL (_Erodium moschatum_).—Otterbourne Hill.
(_E. cicutarium_).—Farley Mount.
WOOD-SORREL (_Oxalis Acetosella_).—This exquisite plant with delicate
flower and trefoil leaves grows on many mossy banks, especially on one on
the Ampfield Road.
HOLLY (_Ilex Aquifolium_).—The glory of the peaty woods. The people
distinguish the berried shrubs as holly, _i.e._ holy, those without
berries being holm.
SPINDLE-TREE (_Euonymus europæus_).—Also called skewer wood. “A tree
that grows on purpose,” as an old woman said of the material of her pegs.
The charming berries with their crimson hearts are plentiful in King’s
Lane.
BUCKTHORN (_Rhamnus Frangula_).—Otterbourne Hill.
(_R. catharticus_).—Hursley.
SYCAMORE (_Acer Pseudo-platanus_).—Road by Oakwood.
MAPLE (_A. campestre_).—Painting the hedges in autumn with its yellow
leaves.
LEGUMINOSE
FURZE (_Ulex europæus_).—Brilliant on all the commons on gravel or peat.
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