NATURE NEAR LONDON 



foot lotus, bittersweet, blackberry, black and white 

 bryony, brooklime, burdock, buttercups, wild camo- 

 mile, wild carrot, celandine the great and lesser 

 cinquefoil, cleavers, corn buttercup, corn mint, 

 corn sow thistle, 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, meadowsweet, yarrow, moon daisy, St. 

 John's wort, pimpernel, water plaintain, poppy, 

 rattles, scabious, self-heal, silverweed, sow thistle, 

 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 flower- 

 ing 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 chickweed, groundsel, and 

 so forth. A solitary shrub of mugwort 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 

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