John Keble's Parishes

LABIATÆ

WATER FIGWORT-

(Scrophularia Balbisii). Both common and not beautiful.

(S. nodosa)

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 HOREHOUND (Bellota fætida).-Hursley hedges.

BASTARD BALM (Melittis Melissophyllum).-Ampfield Wood.

BETONY (Stachys Betonica).

(S. palustris).

(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 album).-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 Odontites).-woods.

RED RATTLE (Pedicularis palustris).-Itchen meadows.

(P. sylvatica).-Otterbourne Hill.

YELLOW RATTLE (Rhinanthus Crista-galli).-Itchen meadows.

YELLOW COW-WHEAT (Melampyrum pratense).-Otterbourne Park.

TOOTHWORT (Lathræa 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 europærus).-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 Canal, 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.

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. album).

(C. urbicum).

DOCK (Rumex sanguineus).

(R. obtusfolius).

(R. pratensis).

WATER DOCK (R. Hydrolapathum).-Fit table-cloth for the butterfly's table.

SORREL (R. Acetosa).

LESSER SORREL (R. Acetosella).-Elegant and slender, making red clouds all over Cranbury.

BUCKWHEAT (Polygonum fagopyrum).-For several seasons in a meadow by Brooklyn. Now vanished.

KNOTGRASS (P. Convolvulus).

BLACK BINDWEED (P. aviculare).

WATER PEPPER (P. Hydropiper).

PERSICARIA (P. Persicaria).

(P. dumetorum).-Ampfield.

BASTARD 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 Shik-shak Day. Why?

BEECH (Fagus 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. Noble plant, commonly, but incorrectly, called bulrush.

BUR-REED (Sparganium ramosum).-With fertile flowers like prickly balls.

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.