260 BOTANY OF SELBORNE. 



Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, opposite golden saxi- 

 frage in the dark and rocky hollow lanes ; 



Gentiana amarella, autumnal gentian, or fellwort 

 on the Zig-zag and Hanger ; 



Lathrcea squammaria, tooth-wort in the Church- 

 litten-coppice, under some hazels near the foot-bridge, 

 in Trimming's garden hedge, and on the dry wall 

 opposite Grange-yard; 



Dipsacus pilosus, small teasel in the Short and 

 Long Lith ; 



Lathyrus sylvestris, narrow-leaved, or wildlathyrus 

 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 ; 



Ophrys 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 mezereum, the mezereon in Selborne- 

 hanger, among the shrubs at the south-east end, above 

 the cottages ; 



Lycoperdon tuber, truffles in the Hanger and 

 High-wood ; 



Sambucus ebulus, dwarf elder, walwort, 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 till 



