John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne - LightNovelsOnl.com
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FOXGLOVE (Digitalis purpurea).--All over the gravelly and peaty woods in splendid congregations of spires--called by the children poppies.
LESSER SNAPDRAGON (Antirrhinum Orontium).--Occasionally in gardens.
WILD SAGE (Salvia Verbenaca).--Ampfield.
SELF-HEAL (Prunella vulgaris).--Called Lady's Slipper.
SKULLCAP (Scutellaria galericulata).--Itchen bank.
(S. minor).--Cranbury hedge on Romsey Road.
BLACK h.o.r.eHOUND (Bellota faetida).--Hursley hedges.
b.a.s.t.a.r.d BALM (Melittis Melissophyllum).--Ampfield Wood.
BETONY (Stachys Betonica).
(S. pal.u.s.tris).
(S. sylvatica).
(S. arvensis).
RED ARCHANGEL (Galeopsis Tetrahit).--Near Chandler's Ford.
MOTHERWORT (Leonurus Cardiaca).--Alas, a dried specimen only remains of this handsome flower, which was sacrificed to a pig-stye on Otterbourne Hill.
WEASEL SNOUT or YELLOW NETTLE (Galeobdolon luteum).
WHITE ARCHANGEL, or BLIND NETTLE (Lamium alb.u.m).--sometimes with a purple flower.
(L. purpureum).--Everywhere.
BUGLE (Ajuga reptans).--All over the woods.
GERMANDER, WOOD-SAGE (Teucrium Scorodonia).--Cranbury Wood.
BUGLOSS (Lycopsis arvensis).--Sand-pit, Boyatt Lane.
VIPER'S BUGLOSS (Echium vulgare).--Chalk-pits.
GREAT YELLOW TOADFLAX (Linaria vulgaris).--In most hedges.
IVY-LEAVED T. (L. Cymbalaria).--Old wall of Merdon Castle.
FLUELLEN (L. Elatine).--In stubble-fields.
(L. spuria).--In the same locality.
CREEPING T. (L. repens).--Chandler's Ford, and hedge of Romsey Road by Pot Kiln.
LESSER T. (L. minor).--Hursley.
SPEEDWELL (Veronica hederifolia).--Hursley, Ampfield.
(V. polita).
(V. Buxbaumii).--In fallow fields all the winter and spring.
(V. arvensis).
(V. officinalis).--Cranbury.
BIRD'S EYE (V. Chamvdrys).--Exquisite blue along the hedges on the chalk and clay.
(V. montana).--Ampfield.
(V. scutellata).
BROOKLIME (V. Beccabunga).--Esteemed a sovereign remedy for an old woman's bad leg.
(V. Anagallis).--Less common, but both frequent the river and the marshes.
EYEBRIGHT (Euphrasia officinalis).--Downs and heaths.
RED EYEBRIGHT (Bartsia Odont.i.tes).--woods.
RED RATTLE (Pedicularis pal.u.s.tris).--Itchen meadows.
(P. sylvatica).--Otterbourne Hill.
YELLOW RATTLE (Rhinanthus Crista-galli).--Itchen meadows.
YELLOW COW-WHEAT (Melampyrum pratense).--Otterbourne Park.
TOOTHWORT (Lathraea squamaria).--South Lynch Wood.
BROOMRAPE (Orobanche repens).--Mallibar roadway.
(O. elatior).--Sparrow Grove.
(O. minor).--Clover-fields, Otterbourne. Wonderful brown parasites, all three.
VERVEIN (Verbena officinalis).--Road-sides.
GIPSYWORT (Lycopus europaerus).--Dell Copse and all bogs.
HORSE MINT (Mentha sylvestris).
(M. hirsuta).
(M. sativa).
(M. arvensis).
THYME (Thymus Serpyllum).--On many a bank does the wild thyme grow, with its perfume delicious.
MARJORAM (Origanum vulgare).--Banks of Winchester Road.
MONKEY FLOWER (Mimulus Luteus)--Bank of Itchen Ca.n.a.l, where it has spread considerably, though probably a stray.
BASIL THYME (Calamintha vulgaris).--Stubble-fields show this lovely little blue flower with a white crescent on the lip.
(C. menthifolia).--Merdon Castle.
BASIL (C. Clinopodium).--Itchen.
CAT MINT (Nepeta Cataria).--Hedge towards Stoneham.
