162 ' NATUUAL HISTOEY OF SELBOENE. 
LETTEE XLL 
TO THE SAME. 
Selborne, July Srd, 1778. 
Dear Sir, — In a district so diversified with such a variety of hill and 
dale, aspects, and soils, it is no wonder that great choice of plants 
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 filices, and the pastures and 
moist woods with fungi. 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 : — 
HelleboTus foetidus, stinking hellebore, bear's foot, or setterworth, — 
all over the High-wood and Coney-croft-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 administered with caution. 
Hellehorus viridis, green hellebore, — in the deep stony lane on the 
left hand just before the turning to i^orton-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. 
Vacciniwn oxycoccos, creeping bilberries, or cranberries, — in the 
bogs of Bin's-pond.^' 
Vaccinium myrtillus, whortle, or bleaberries, — on the dry hillocks of 
Woolmer-forest. 
Drosera rotundifolia, round-leaved sundew, — in the bogs of Bin's- 
pond. 
Drosera longifolia, long-leaved sundew, — in the bogs of Bin's-pond. 
Comarum pahistre, purple comarum, or marsh cinquefoil, — in the 
bogs of Bin's-pond. 
Hypericum androscemum, Tutsan, St. John's Wort, — in the stony, 
hollow lanes. 
Vinca minor, less periwinkle, — in Selborne-hanger and Shrub-wood. 
Monotropa hyjoopithys, yellow monotropa, or birds' nest, — in Sel- 
borne-hanger under the shady beeches, to whose roots it seems to be 
parasitical, at the north-west end of the Hanger. 
Clilora perfoliata, Blachstonia perfoliata, Httdsoni, perfoliated yellow- 
wort, — on the banks in the King's-field. 
Paris quadrifolia, herb of Paris, true-love, or one-berry, — in the 
Church-litten-coppice. 
* See note Letter VIII. to Pennant, p. 20. — Bin's Pond is now drained. The 
marsh plants therefore, are most probably now wanting. Drosera longifolia 
would in all probability be D, anglica. 
