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THE NATURAL HISTORY 



[LETT. 



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 

 jiquatic 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 be neither unacceptable nor unentertaining : 



Stinking Hellebore (Hdleborus fcetidus), Bear's foot or Setterwort, all over 

 the High-wood and Coney-croft-hanger ; this continues a great branching 

 plant the winter through, blossoming about January, and ia 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. 



Green Hellebore (Helleborus viridis), in the deep stony lane on thn left 

 hand just before the turning to Norton farm, and at the top of Middle 

 Dorton under the hedge ; this plant dies down to the ground early in autumn, 

 and springs again about February, flowering almost as soon as it appears 

 above ground. 



Creeping Bilberry, or Cranberries (Vaccinium oxycoccos), in the bogs of 

 Bin's-pond. 



Whortle, or Bilberries (Vaccinium myrtilhts), on the dry hillocks of 

 Wolmer Forest. 



Round- leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundiflora), and Long-leaved Sundew 

 (Drosera longifolia), in the bogs of Bin's-pond. 



Purple Comarum (Comarum palustre), or Marsh Cinquefoil, in the bogs of 

 Bin's-pond. 



Tustan, or St. John's Wort (Hypericum androscemum), in the stony, 

 hollow lanes. 



Lesser Periwinkle (Vinea minor), in Selborne-hanger and Shrub-wood. 



Yellow Monotropa (Monotropa hypopithys), or Bird's nest, in Selborne- 

 Imnger under the shady beeches, to whose roots it seems to be parasitical, at 

 the north-west end of the Hanger. 



Perfoliated Yellow -wort (Chlora perfoliata, Blackitonia perfoliata, 

 Hudsonii), on the banks in the King's-field. 



Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia), True-love, or One-berry, in the Church- 

 litten-coppice. 



Opposite Golden Saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifoiium), in the dark 

 and rocky hollow lanes. 



Autumnal Gentian (Gentiana amarella), or Fellwort, on the Zig-zag and 

 Hanger. 



Tooth-wort (Lathraa squammaria), 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. 



