John Keble's Parishes

UMBELLIFERA

GOUTWEED (Ægopodium Podagra).-Handsome leaves, but a troublesome weed.

PIGNUT (Bunium flexuosum).-The delicate, lace-like, umbellate flowers in all the woods.

WATER DROPWORT (nanthe fistulosa).-Banks of Itchen.

WATER HEMLOCK (. crocata).-Itchen banks.

WILD CARROT (Daucus Carota).

BURNET SAXIFRAGE (Pimpinella Sax Jraga).-Hursley.

COW PARSLEY (Chærophyllum sylvestre).-Boys may be seen bearing home bundles for their rabbits.

SHEPHERD'S NEEDLE (Scandix Pecten Veneis).-In cornfields.

HEDGE PARSLEY (Torilis infesta).-Hursley.

HEMLOCK (Conium maculatum).

IVY (Hedera Helix).-Everywhere.

DOGWOOD (Cornus sanguinea).-The red and purple of the fading leaves mixed with the yellow of the maples make every hedge a study.

MISTLETOE (Viscum album).-Grows on hawthorns in Hursley Park, and on apple-trees at Otterbourne.

MOSCATEL (Adoxa Moschatellina).-This dainty little green-headed plant is one of the harbingers of spring.

ELDER (Sambucus nigra).-In most hedges, though its honours are gone as the staple of elder-wine, and still better of elder-flower water, which village sages used to brew, and which was really an excellent remedy for weak eyes.

GUELDER-ROSE (Viburnum Opulus).-Equally handsome whether white-garlanded cymes of blossoms or scarlet berries, waxen when partly ripe.

WAYFARING-TREE (V. Lantana).-Not quite so common, but handsome, with white flowers and woolly leaves.

HONEYSUCKLE (Lonicera Periclymenum).-To be seen in full glory waving on the top of a holly-tree, and when the stem has become amalgamated with a bough, circling it like the staff of Esculapius, it is precious to boys.

(L. Caprifolium).-Noted as once found, but not lately.