NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 189 



Chlora perfoliata, Blackstonia perfoliata, Hudsoni, perf oliated 

 yellowwort, on the banks in the King's Field. 



Paris quadrifolia, herb of 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 

 Zigzag and Hanger. 



Lathraa squamaria, 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 wild lathyrus, 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 High Wood 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. 



Sambuctis ebulus, dwarf elder, walwort, or danewort, 

 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 fcetidus and 

 helleborus niger blowing at Christmas, the helleborus hyemalis 

 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 vegetables differ so widely in their time 

 of flowering, that we cannot but admire. I shall only instance 



