John Keble's Parishes

CARYOPHYLLEÆ

DEPTFORD PINK (Dianthus Armeria).-This used to grow in a field near Highbridge, but has been destroyed, either purposely or by fencing.

BLADDER CAMPION (Silene inflata).-Showing its white flowers and swelling calyxes everywhere.

COMMON CATCHFLY (S. anglica).-Small and insignificant among corn.

RED CAMPION (Lychnis diurna).-Robins, as children call it, with the bright pink in every hedge and the undergrowth in every copse.

WHITE C. (L. vespertina).-The white flowers make a feature in fallow fields.

RAGGED ROBIN (L. Flos-cuculi).-The curiously slashed and divided pink flowers flourish in the water-meadows by the Itchen.

CORN COCKLE (Agrostemma githago).-The beautiful purple blossoms, set in long graceful calyxes, adorn the paths through wheat and barley fields everywhere.

LESSER STITCHWORT (Mænchia erecta).-

CHICKWEED-

(Cerastiurn vulgatum) Early plant. Uninteresting

(C. arvense) tiny white flowers.

STARWORT (Stellaria Holostea).-The bright stitches of white embroidery on our banks.

CHICKWEED (S. media.)-The chickweed dear to bird-keepers.

(S graminea).-Cobweb-like, almost invisible stems, and blossom with a fairy brightness over the heaths.

(S. uliginosa).-The same adapted to marshes-Cuckoo Bushes, Helmsley.

SANDWORT (Arenaria Rubra).-The little pink flowers crop up through the gravel paths.

CORN SPURREY (Spergula arvensis).-Very long-spurred, with white small blossoms.

(Alsine tenuifolia).-Roman road between Hursley and Sparsholt.

KNAWEL (Scleranthus annuus).-Hursley.