200 The Natural History 



Gentia?ia a?narelia, autumnal gentian or fellvvort, — on 

 the Zig-zag and Hanger ; 



Lathrcea squammaria^ tooth-wort, — in the Church 

 Litten coppice under some hazels near the foot-bridge, in 

 Trimming's garden-hedge, and on the dry wall opposite 

 Grange-yard ; 



Dipsacus pilosuSj small teasel, — in the Short and Long 

 Lith; 



Lathyrus sylvestrls^ narrow-leaved, or wild lathyriis, — 

 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 ?iidus 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 iatifolid, helleborine, — in the High-wood 

 under the shady beeches ; 



Daphie iaureola, spurge laurel, — in Selborne Hanger 

 and the High-wood ; 



Daphne 7nezereu??i, 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. 



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 fcetidics and helleborus niger blowing at 

 Christmas, the helleborus hyemalis in January, and the 

 helleborus vh'idis as soon as ever it emerges out of the 

 ground, we do not wonder, because they are kindred plants 

 that we expect should keep pace the one with the other. 

 But other congenerous vegetables differ so widely in their 

 time of flowering that we cannot but admire. I shall 



