John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne - LightNovelsOnl.com
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GROUND IVY (N. Glechoma).--Everywhere in woods.
PLANTAIN TRIBE
KNOCKHEADS (Plantago major).
LESSER PLANTAIN (P. media).
(P. lanceolata).
STAGSHORN (P. Coronopus).--Otterbourne Hill.
GOOD KING HENRY (Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus).
GOOSEFOOT (C. alb.u.m).
(C. urbic.u.m).
DOCK (Rumex sanguineus).
(R. obtusfolius).
(R. pratensis).
WATER DOCK (R. Hydrolapathum).--Fit table-cloth for the b.u.t.terfly's table.
SORREL (R. Acetosa).
LESSER SORREL (R. Acetosella).--Elegant and slender, making red clouds all over Cranbury.
BUCKWHEAT (Polygonum f.a.gopyrum).--For several seasons in a meadow by Brooklyn. Now vanished.
KNOTGRa.s.s (P. Convolvulus).
BLACK BINDWEED (P. aviculare).
WATER PEPPER (P. Hydropiper).
PERSICARIA (P. Persicaria).
(P. dumetorum).--Ampfield.
b.a.s.t.a.r.d TOADFLAX (Thesium linophyllum).--Crab Wood.
SUN SPURGE (Euphorbia Helioscopia).--Corn-fields.
WOOD S. (E. amygdaloides).--Cranbury and Otterbourne Park.
SMALL S. (E. Peplus).
(E. exigua).
DOG'S MERCURY (Mercurialis perennis).--First to clothe the banks with fresh vernal green.
NETTLE (Urtica dioica).
SMALL NETTLE (U. nana).
HOD (Humulus Lupulus).--If not native, it has taken well to the hedges, and clothes them with graceful wreaths.
ELM (Ulmus campestris)--Largest of spreading trees.
OAK (Quercus Robur).--Acorns differ on many trees. Five varieties of Cynips produce different oak-apples. Oak is still worn on the 29th of May, and it is called s.h.i.+k-shak Day. Why?
BEECH (f.a.gus sylvatica).--Beautiful at Ampfield and South Lynch, and permitting only a select few plants to grow under its shade.
HAZEL (Corylus Avellana).
ALDER (Alnus glutinosa).
BIRCH (Betula alba).--Silver-leaved and white-barked, making fairy groves.
ASPEN (Populus tremula).--Aps, the people call it. The catkins are like caterpillars.
WILLOW or WITHY (Salix Caprea).--Our yellow goslings in spring, as they shoot from their silver rabbit-tail catkins, and our palms on Palm Sunday, though it is unlucky to bring one home earlier.
(S. triandra).--Near the old church, Otterbourne.
(S. rubra).
ROUND-LEAVED W. (S. aurita).
SALLOW W. (S. cinerea).
WHITE W. (S. alba).
(S. fragilis).
DWARF W. (S. repens).--Bogs towards Baddesley.
OSIER W. (S. viminalis).--Ampfield.
JUNIPER (Juniperus communis).--Above Standon on Down.
YEW (Taxus baccata).--Scattered in hedges, or singly all over the chalk district.
REEDMACE (Typha latifolia).--Itchen. n.o.ble plant, commonly, but incorrectly, called bulrush.
BUR-REED (Sparganium ramosum).--With fertile flowers like p.r.i.c.kly b.a.l.l.s.
LORDS-AND-LADIES or CUCKOO-PINT (Arum maculatum).--Showing their heads under every hedge. The lords have a red column, the ladies a white.
DUCKWEED (Lemna trisulca).
GREAT WATER PLANTAIN (Alisma Plantago).--Stately ornament of bogs.
THE LILY TRIBE
