240 BOTANY OF SELBOBNE. 



paign fields, cannot but furnish an ample flora. The deep 

 rocky lanes abound with Jilices, and the pastures and moist 

 woods with fungi. If in any branch of botany we may seem 

 to be wanting, it must be in the large aquatic plants, which 

 are not to be expected on a spot far removed from rivers, and 

 lying up amidst the hill-country at the spring-heads. To 

 enumerate all the plants that have been discovered within 

 our limits, would be a needless work ; but a short list of 

 the more rare, and the spots where they are to be found, may 

 neither be unacceptable nor unentertaining. 



Helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore, bear's-foot, or 

 setterwort all over the High wood and Coneycroft-hanger ; 

 this continues a great branching plant the winter through, 

 blossoming about January, and is very ornamental in shady 

 walks and shrubberies. The good women give the leaves 

 powdered to children troubled with worms ; but it is a violent 

 remedy, and ought to be administered with caution. 



Helleborus viridis, green hellebore in the deep stony lane, 

 on the left hand just before the turning to Norton farm, and 

 at the top of Middle Dorton under the edge ; this plant dies 

 down to the ground early in autumn, and springs again about 

 February, flowering almost as soon as it appears above ground. 



Vaccinium oxycoccus, creeping bilberries, or cranberries 

 in the bogs of Bin's pond; 



Vaccinium myrtillus, whortle, or bilberries on the dry 

 hillocks of Wolmer Forest ; 



Drosera rotundifolia, round-leaved sundew in the bogs 

 of Bin's-pond ; 



Drosera longifoUa* long-leaved sundew in the bogs of 

 Bin's-pond. 



Comarum palustre, purple comarum, or marsh cinque-foil 

 in the bogs of Bin's-pond. 



Hypericum androsamum, Tutsan, St. John's wort in the 

 stony, hollow lanes ; 



Vinca minor, less periwinkle in Selborne-hanger and 

 Shrub-wood ; 



Monatropa TiypopitJiys, yellow monotropa, or bird's-nest 

 in Selborne-hanger under the shady beeches, to whose roots 

 it seems to be parasitical at the north-west end of the 

 Hanger ; 



* Should this not have been Drosera Anglica! W. J k 



