320 The Natural History of Selborne 



Paris quadrifolia, herb of Paris, true-love, or one-berry, 

 in the Church-litten-coppice. 



C ' hrysosplenium oppositifolium, opposite golden saxifrage, 

 in the dark and rocky hollow lanes. 



Gentiana amarella, autumnal gentian, or felhvort, on the 

 Zigzag and Hanger. 



Lathrcea squamaria, 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. 



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, birds' 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 latifoha, helleborine, in the High-wood under 

 the shady beeches. 



Daphne laureola, spurge laurel, in Selborne-hanger and the 

 High- wood. 



Daphne mesereunt, 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, walwort, or danewort, among 

 the rubbish and ruined foundations of the Priory. 1 



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, 



1 In the first edition this letter ended here ; but in the quarto edited by 

 Mitford the following passage was added to it. The additional paragraph 

 has appeared in all the subsequent editions which I have consulted. I do 

 not know whence Mitford derived it, nor on what authority he added it in 

 this particular position. ED. 



