250 NATURAL HISTORY 



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 administered 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 Bin's Pond ; 



Vaccinium myrtillus, whortle, or bleaberries, on the dry 

 hillocks of Wolmer Forest ; 



Drosera rotundifoUa, round-leaved sundew, in the bogs 

 of Bin's Pond ; 



Drosera longifolia, long-leaved sundew, in the bogs of 

 Bin's Pond ; 



Comarum palustre, purple comarurn, or marsh cinquefoil, 

 in the bogs of Bin's Pond ; 



Hypericum androscemum, Tutsan St. John's Wort, in 

 the stony, hollow lanes ; 



Vinca minor , lesser 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 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 Zigzag and Hanger ; 



Lathrcea squamaria, toothwort, in the Church Litten 

 Coppice under some hazels near the foot bridge in Trim- 

 ming's garden hedge, and on the dry wall opposite Grange 

 Yard; 



