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lanes abound with filices, and the pastures and moist woods 

 with /7Z7. 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 enumer- 

 ate 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 un- 

 acceptable nor unentertaining : 



Helleborus fcetiduS) stinking hellebore, bear's foot, or setter- 

 worth, all over the High Wood and Coneycroft Hanger : this 

 continues a great branching plant the winter through, blossom- 

 ing 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 hedge : this plant dies 

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

 February, flowering almost as soon as it appears above the 

 ground. 



Vaccinium oxycoccos, creeping bilberries, or cranberries, in 

 the bogs of Bin's Pond. 



Vaccinium myrtillus, whortle, or bleaberries, on the dry 

 hillocks of Wolmer Forest. 



Drosera rotundifolia, round-leaved sundew, in the bogs of 

 Bin's Pond. 



Drosera longifolia, long-leaved sundew, in the bogs of Bin's 

 Pond. 



Comarum palustre> purple comarum, or marsh cinquefoil, 

 in the bogs of Bin's Pond. 



Hypericum androscemum, Tutsan, St. John's-wort, in the 

 stony, hollow lanes. 



Vinca minor, less periwinkle, in Selborne Hanger and 

 Shrub Wood. 



Monotropa hypopithys, 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. 



