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celandine (the great and lesser), cinquefoil, cleavers, 

 corn buttercup, corn mint, corn sowthistle, and spurrey, 

 cowslip, cow-parsnip, wild parsley, daisy, dandelion, dead 

 nettle, and white dog rose, and trailing rose, violets (the 

 sweet and the scentless), figwort, veronica, ground ivy, 

 willowherb (two sorts), herb Robert, honeysuckle, lady's 

 smock, purple loosestrife, mallow, meadow - orchis, 

 meadow-sweet, yarrow, moon daisy, St. John's wort, 

 pimpernel, water plantain, poppy, rattles, scabious, self- 

 heal, silverweed, sowthistle, stitchwort, teazles, tormentil, 

 vetches, and yellow vetch. 



To these may be added an occasional bacon and eggs, 

 a few harebells (plenty on higher ground, the yellow 

 iris, by the adjoining brook, and flowering shrubs and 

 trees, as dogwood, gorse, privet, blackthorn, hawthorn, 

 horse chestnut, besides wild hops, the horsetails on the 

 mounds, and such plants as grow everywhere, as chick- 

 weed, groundsel, and so forth. A solitary shrub of mug- 

 wort grows at some distance, but in the same district, 

 and in one hedgerow the wild guelder rose flourishes. 

 Anemones and primroses are not found along or near 

 this road, nor woodruff. At the first glance a list like 

 this reads as if flowers abounded, but the reverse is the 

 impression to those who frequent the place. 



It is really a very short list, and as of course all of 

 these do not appear at once there really is rather a 

 scarcity of wild flowers, so far at least as variety goes. 

 Just in the spring there is a burst of colour, and again 

 in the autumn ; but for the rest, if we set aside the roses 

 in June, there seems quite an absence of flowers during 

 the summer. The wayside is green, the ditches are 

 green, the mounds green ; if you enter and stroll round 

 the meadows, they are green too, or white in places with 

 umbelliferous plants, principally parsley and cow-parsnip. 



