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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 fun^. 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 fcetidiis, stinking hellebore, bear's foot, or setterwort, 

 — all over the High-wood and Coney-crqfl-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 Dorian 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. 



Faccinium oxycoccos, creeping bilberries, or cranberries, — in the 

 bogs of Bin's-pond ; 



Faccinium myrtillus, whortle, or bilberries, — on the dry hillocks 

 of Wolmer-forest ; 



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



longifolia, long-leaved ditto. 3 Bin's-pond. 



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

 the bogs of Bin's-pond ; 



Hypericum androsmmum. Tutsan, St. John's Wort, — -in the stony, 

 hollow lanes ; 



Finca 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, Blachstonia perfoliata, Hudsoni, perfoliated 

 yellow-wort, — on the banks in the Kings-field ; 



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

 Church-litten-coppice ; 



