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CTilora perfoUata, Blachstonia perfoliata, Hudsoni, perfo- 

 liated yellow- wort — on the banks in the King's Field; 



Paris quadrifolia, herb Paris, true love, or one-berry — 

 in the Cliurch-litten coppice ; 



Chrysosplenium oppositifoliwn, opposite golden saxifrage 

 — in the dark and rocky hollow lanes ; 



Gentiana amarella, autumnal gentian, or fellwort — on the 

 Zig-zag and Hanger ; 



Lathrcsa squammaria,toot\i'^OTi — in the Church-litten cop- 

 pice, under some hazels near the foot-bridge, in Trimming's 

 garden hedge, and on the dry wall opposite Grrange-yard ; 



Dipsacuspilosus, small teasel — in the Short and Long Lith ; 



Lathyrus sylvestris, narrow-leaved, or wild lathyrus — in 

 the bushes at the foot of the Short Lith, near the path ; 



Ophrys spiralis, ladies' traces — in the Long Lith, and 

 towards the south corner of the common ; 



Oplirys nidus avis, bird's nest ophrys — in the Long Lith, 

 under the shady beeches among the dead leaves, in Great 

 Dorton among the bushes, and on the Hanger plentifully : 



Serapias latifolia, helleborine — in the Highwood under 

 the shady beeches ; 



Daphne laureola^ spurge-laurel — in Selborne-hanger and 

 the High-wood ; 



Daphne onezereum, the mezereon — in Selborne-hanger, 

 among the shrubs at the south-east end, above the cottages ; 



Ly coper don tuber, truffles — in the Hanger and High-wood ; 



Samhucus ehulus, dwarf-elder, wal-wort, or dane-wort — 

 among the rubbish and ruined foundations of the Priory. 



Of all the propensities of plants, none seem more strange 

 than their different periods of blossoming. Some produce 

 their flowers in the winter, or very first dawnings of spring ; 

 many when the spring is established; some at midsummer, 

 and some not tiU autumn. When we see the hellehorus 

 fcetidus and hellehorus niger blowing at Christmas, the helle- 

 horus hyemalis in January, and the hellehorus viridis as soon 

 as ever it emerges out of the ground, we do not wonder, 

 because they are kindred plants that we expect should keep 

 pace the one with the other ; but other congenerous vege- 

 tables differ so widely in then* time of flowering, that we 

 cannot but admire. I shall only instance at present in the 



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