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Chlora perfoliata, SlacJcstonia 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 Church-litten coppice ; 



Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, opposite golden saxifrage 

 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 cop- 

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

 garden hedge, and on the dry wall opposite Grange-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 ; 



OpJirys spiralis, ladies' traces in the Long Lith, and 

 towards the south corner of the common ; 



OpJirys 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, 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 till autumn. When we see the helleborus 

 foetidus and Jielleborus niger blowing at Christmas, the Jielle- 

 borus Tiyemalis in January, and the helleborus 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 their time of flowering, that we 

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



