John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne - LightNovelsOnl.com
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NIPPLEWORT (Lapsana communis).--Too frequent weed.
DANDELION (Leontodon Taraxac.u.m).--How can its praise for glorious brilliant flowers and stems fit for chains be pa.s.sed by, or for the "clocks" that furnish auguries!
(L. autumnalis).--Is this a separate species, or the dandelion blowing in autumn?
GO-TO-BED AT NOON (Tragopogon pratensis).--Beautiful when open early in the day, beautiful when the long calyx is closed, and most beautiful with its handsome winged pappus--King's Lane, Otterbourne Churchyard.
WILD LETTUCE (Lactuca muralis).--On heaps of flints.
MOUSEAR (Thrincia hirta).--Sulphur-coloured, small, and held to be an excellent remedy for whooping-cough.
OX-TONGUE (Helminthia echioides).--The rough leaf is well named.
HAWKBIT (Hieracium autumnale).
(Apargia hispida).--In cornfields.
SHEEP'S-BIT (Jasione montana).--Cranbury Common.
SOW THISTLE (Sonchus arvensis).
(S. pal.u.s.tris).
WHORTLEBERRY (Vaccinium Myrtillus).--Ampfield Wood.
CROSS-LEAVED HEATH (Erica Tetralix) Otterbourne Hill, the glory of early autumn.
BELL HEATHER (E. cinerea).
LING (Calluna vulgaris) BIRD'S NEST (Monotropa Hypopitys).--South Lynch Wood.
ASH (Fraxinus excelsior).
PRIVET (Ligustrum vulgare).--Lane leading to the Itchen.
GENTIAN TRIBE
THE PERIWINKLE (Vinca minor).--Curiously irregular in blossoming.
One spring the ground is covered with blue stars, another only with evergreen trails. Its only habitat here is Lincoln's Copse.
YELLOWWORT (Chlora perfoliata).--Ampfield Wood.
CENTAURY (Erythraea Centaurea).--Cranbury.
GENTIAN (Gentiana Pneunomanthe).--Baddesley bog, Cranbury.
(G. Amarella).--Pitt Down.
BOGBEAN (Menyanthes trifolium).--This lovely flower abides in the wet banks of the Itchen.
BINDWEED (Convolvulus sepium).--Pure and white.
(C. minor).--In shades of pink. Called lilies by the country-folk.
DODDER (Cuscuta Epithymum).--Red threads forming a beaded network over the furze.
(C. Trifolii).--Coa.r.s.er fibres, smaller b.a.l.l.s of blossom, in some years strangling the clover.
WOODY NIGHTSHADE (Solanum Dulcamara).--Purple flowers, red berries, beautiful everywhere.
(S. nigrum).--White-flowered, black-berried. At Cranbury, and occasionally elsewhere.
DEADLY NIGHTSHADE (Atropa belladonna).--Used to be near the front door at Hursley Park.
HENBANE (Hyoscyamus niger).--Formerly on the top of Compton Hill, and at the angle of the lane leading to Bunstead.
BORAGE TRIBE
MULLEIN (Verbasc.u.m nigrum). The handsome spikes (V. Thapsus) everywhere.
(V. Blattaria).--Formerly in hedge of cottage at Silkstede.
GROMWELL (Lithospermum officinale).--Beside Winchester Road on way to Twyford.
FORGET-ME-NOT (Myosotis pal.u.s.tris).--Itchen meadows.
MOUSE-EAR, SCORPION GRa.s.s (M. versicolor).--Stubblefields.
(M. sylvatica).--Ampfield.
(M. arvensis).--Everywhere.
COMFREY (Symphytum officinale).--Itchen banks.
HOUND'S TONGUE (Cynoglossum officinale).--Merdon Hill, but it has disappeared from Otterbourne.
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 b.a.l.l.s. 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.
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WATER FIGWORT - (Scrophularia Balbisii). Both common and not beautiful.
(S. nodosa)
