TORMENTIL (_P. Tormentilla_).—This is now ranged among the cinquefoils,
though it has only four petals, owing perhaps to the very dry barren
heathy soil it brightens with its stars.
CINQUEFOIL (_P. repens_).—A smiling pentagon star by the wayside.
SILVER-WEED or GOOSE-GRASS (_P. anserina_).—Why dedicated to geese, even
in Latin, it is hard to say. Silver-weed is more appropriate to the
silver-grey leaves that border road-sides, sometimes with golden flowers.
MARSH CINQUEFOIL (_Comarum palustre_).—A prize in Baddesley bog, unless
drains have banished its pure flower.
WOOD STRAWBERRY (_Fragaria vesca_).—Profuse in Cranbury and on banks of
railway at Sparrow Grove.
WILD RASPBERRY (_Rubus Idæus_).—Cranbury, near the road.
WILD BLACKBERRY (_R. fruticosus_).—Brambles, of course, everywhere, but
it is impossible to pass them without a tribute to their beauty, in
flower, in fruit, and, above all, in autumn foliage.
DEWBERRY (_R. cæsius_).—What is probably dewberry grows by the roadway
through Mallibar Copse.
(_R. leucostratus_).—Roman Road and Cranbury Common.
HERB BENNET (_Geum urbanum_).—Insignificant yellow flower.
WATER AVENS (_G. rivale_).—Quaint little ruddy half-expanded blossoms,
called by the villagers Granny’s Night-caps.
(_G. intermedium_).—Really intermediate—probably hybrid. Found once in a
copse between Boyatt Lane and the Southampton Road.
LADY’S MANTLE (_Alchemilla arvensis_).—Crabwood.
SWEET-BRIAR (_Rosa rubiginosa_).—Copse by pond, Cranbury.
DOG-ROSE (_R. canina_).—With handsomer hips.
WHITE DOG-ROSE (_R. arvensis_).
HAWTHORN (_Cratægus monogyna_).—Who does not love when the blossoms cover
them like snow-drift? Well are they called May.
MOUNTAIN ASH (_Pyrus Aucuparia_).—This rowan-tree of Scotland has no
weird horrors here, but it is the ornament of the woods, with white
cymes, red berries, and feathery leaves.
CRAB-TREE (_P. Malus_).—Romsey Road, where the pinky blossoms show
opposite Cranbury Gate.
WHITEBEAM (_P. Aria_).—Grey or white leaves shine out in Ampfield Wood.
PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE (_Lythrum salicaria_).—Ophelia’s long purples adorn
the water-courses in the Itchen mead.
WILLOW-HERB TRIBE
ROSEBAY WILLOW-HERB (_Epilobium angustifolium_).—This splendid flower,
rose-coloured, white-pistilled and red-leaved, spreads in sheets in
Cranbury Copse and on railway cuttings, at Cuckoo Bushes, and in Ampfield
Wood.
CODLINS-AND-CREAM (_E. hirsutum_).—Adorning wet places.
SMALL WILLOW-HERB—
(_E. parviflorum_) Troublesome though pretty weeds in the garden.
(_E. tetragonum_)
(_E. roseum_)
(_E. montanum_).—Found at Ampfield.
ENCHANTER’S NIGHTSHADE (_Circæa lutetiana_).—A graceful, delicate-looking
plant of universal occurrence.
WATER STARWORT (_Callitriche verna_).—Ponds.
MARESTAIL (_Hippuris vulgaris_).—Waves with the current of the stream in
the Itchen.
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