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should be found. Chalks, clays, sands, sheep-walks and downs, 

 bogs, heaths, woodlands, and champaign fields, cannot but furnish 

 an ample Flora. The deep rocky lanes abound with Jilices, and 

 the pastures and moist woods with fungi. 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 enumerate 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 unacceptable nor unentertaining : 



Helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore, bear's foot, or setterwort, 

 all over the High-wood and Coney-croft-hanger : this continues 

 a great branching plant the winter through, blossoming 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 adminis- 

 tered 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 ground. 



Vaccinium oxycoccos, creeping bilberries, or cranberries, in the 

 bogs of Bins-pond ; 



Vaccinium myrtillus, whortle, or bilberries, on the dry hillocks 

 of Wolmer-forest ; 



Drosera rotundifolia, round-leaved sundew. | In the bogs of 



longifolia, long-leaved ditto. ) Bins-pond. 



Comarum palustre, purple comarum, or marsh cinque foil, in 

 the bogs of Bins-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 ; 



Chlora perfoliata, Blackstonia perfoliata, Hudsoni, per foliated 

 yellow-wort, on the banks in the Kings-Jield ; 



Paris quadrifolia, herb Paris, true-love, or one-berry, in the 

 Church-litten-coppice ; 



