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Ghlora perfoliata, JBlacTcstonia perfoliata, Sudsoni, perfo- 

 liated yellow-wort — on the banks in the King's Keld; 



Faris quadrifoUa, herb Paxis, 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 

 Zig-zag and Hanger ; 



Laihr(Basguammaria,iooi\i-Tfiait — in the Church-Htten cop- 

 pice, under some hazels near the foot-bridge, in Trimming's 

 garden hedge, and on the dry wall opposite Grange-yard ; 



Dipsacuspilos-us, small teasel^ — in the Short and Long Lith ; 



Laihyrus syl/oestris, narrow-leaved, or wild lathyrus — in 

 the bushes at the foot of the Short Lith, near the path ; 



OpJtrys spiralis, ladies' traces — ^in the Long Lith, and 

 towards the south corner of the common ; 



Ophrys nidus avis, bird's 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 latifolia, helleborine — in the Highwood under 

 the shady beeches ; 



JDaplme laureola, spurge-lanrel — in Selborne-hanger and 

 the High-wood ; 



Daphne mezereum, the mezereon — ^in Selborne-hanger, 

 among the shrubs at the south-east end, above the cottages ; 



Jjycoperdon tuber, tru£B.es — in the Hanger and High- wood ; 



Sambucus ebulus, dwarf-elder, wal-wort, or dane-wort — 

 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 

 foetidus and lielleborus niger blowing at Christmas, the helle- 

 borus hyemalis in January, and the helleborus viridis 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 vege- 

 tables differ so widely in their time of flowering, that we 

 cannot but admire. I shall only instance at present iu the 



