SAXIFRAGEA

ORPINE (Sedum Telephium).-Also called Midsummer May; grows in Otterbourne Park, and a large bunch on the Romsey Road. An old woman described having tried the augury, having laid the plants in pairs on Midsummer Eve, naming them after pairs of sweethearts. Those that twisted away from each other showed inconstancy!

STONECROP (S. anglicum).-Otterbourne Hill.

(S. acre).-Hursley.

HOUSELEEK (Sempervivum tectorum).-Also called Sin-green, or some word so sounding. It is not permitted to blow upon the roof on which it grows, for fear of ill-luck, which is strange, as it has been Jupiter's beard, Thor's beard, and St. George's beard, and in Germany is thought to preserve from thunder.

SAXIFRAGE (Saxifraga tridactylites).-Hursley.

GOLDEN S. (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium).-Wet places in Lincoln's Copse.

MARSH PENNYWORT (Hydrocotyle vulgaris).-Bogs at Cuckoo Bushes.

WOOD SANICLE (Sanicula vulgaris).-In all the copses.

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