John Keble's Parishes

CRUCIFERA

ROCKET (Diplotaxis tenuifolia).-Seen at Brambridge.

CHARLOCK (Sinapis arvensis).-Making fields golden.

WHITE C. (S. alba).-Standon, Hursley.

JACK-BY-THE-HEDGE (Sisymbrium alliaria).-Seen at Brambridge.

LADY'S SMOCK (Cardamine pratensis).-No doubt named because the pearly flowers look on a moist meadow like linen bleaching. Sometimes double in rich ground.

HAIRY CARDAMINE (C. hirsuta).-Hursley.

YELLOW ROCKET (Barbarea vulgaris).-Road near Chandler's Ford. Near bridge over Itchen.

WATERCRESS (Nasturtium officinale).-Everywhere in running water, and now Poolhole is made into a nursery for it.

SHEPHERD'S PURSE (Thlaspi Bursa-pastoris).-Even the purses are to be seen before we well know the tiny white flowers to be in blossom.

PENNYCRESS (T. arvense).-Larger, and uplifting a spike of rounded, fan-shaped capsules.

WILD MIGNONETTE (Reseda lutea).-Mignonette all but the perfume-chalk-pits.

DYER'S ROCKET (R. luteola).-Slenderer and more spiked; more common.

ROCK ROSE (Helianthemum vulgare).-There is an elegance and delicacy of colour about this little cistus which renders it one of the most charming of the many stars of the wayside, as it grows on Compton Hill.

SWEET VIOLET (Viola odorata).-The colour, purple or white or pink, seems to depend on the soil. White are the most common on the chalky side, blue on the gravel.

MARSH V. (V. palustris).-Small and pale, with round leaves. Seen at a spring in Otterbourne Park. (V. permixta).-Pinky- Kiln-yard, Otterbourne.

DOG V. (V. canina).-In every wood, rich and handsome.

SNAKE V. (V. hirta).-More delicate and small, growing in turf-Pleasure Grounds, Cranbury.

(V. Riviniana).-Hursley Park.

(V. Reichenbachiana).-Dane Lane. The three last are very probably only sports of canina.

CREAM-COLOURED V. (V. lactea).-More skim-milk coloured, but known by lanceolate leaves-cuckoo bushes.

PANSY (V. tricolor).-Everywhere in fallow fields. In rich soil the upper petals become purple.

SUNDEW-

(Drosera rotundifolia) The curious, hairy, dewy leaves

(D. intermedia) and flowers that never open in full day are to be found in the marshes near Hiltingbury.

MILKWORT (Polygala vulgaris).-Small and blue on Otterbourne Hill, as a stitch in the embroidery of the turf; but larger, blue, pink, or white in the water-meadows beside the Itchen, deserving the American name of May-wings.