PLANTS PERIODS OF BLOSSOMING. 209 



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 ; 



Chlora perfoliata, Blackstonia perfoliata, Hudsoni, perfoliated 

 yellow- wort, on the banks in the King's-field; 



Paris quadrifolia, herb 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 Zig- 

 zag and Hanger ; 



Lathrcea squammaria, tooth-wort, in the Church-litten-cop- 

 pice under some hazels near the foot-bridge, in Trimming's gar- 

 den 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 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. 



Sambucus ebulus, dwarf elder, wallwort, 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 hy emails 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 ex- 

 pect should keep pace the one with the other. But other conge- 

 nerous vegetables differ so widely in their time of flowering, that 



