PLANTS — PERIODS OF BLOSSOMING. 209 
Monotropa hypopithys, yellow monotropa, or bird's nest, — m 
Selborne-iianger 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 King's-field; 
Paris quadrifolia, herb Paris, true-love, or one-berry, — in the 
Church-litten-coppice ; 
Chrysosplenium opposififolium. opposite golden saxifrage, — m 
the dark and rocky hollow lanes ; 
Gentiana amarella, autumnal gentian, or fellwort, — on the Zig- 
zag and Hanger ; 
Lathrcea squammaria, tooth-wort, — in the Church-litten-cop- 
pice under some hazels near the foot-bridge, in Trimming's gar- 
den hedge, and on the dry wall opposite Grange-yard ; 
Dipsacus pilosus, small teasel, — in the Short and Long Lith. 
Latkyrus sylvestris, narrow-leaved, or wild lathyrus, — 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 nidus 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 latifolia, helleborine, — in the High-wood under the 
shady beeches ; 
Daphne laureola, spurge-laurel, — m Selborne Hanger and the 
High-wood. 
Daphne mezereum, 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, wallwort, 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 foetidus and helleborus niger 
blowing at Christmas, the helleborus liyemalis 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 ex- 
pect should keep pace the one with the other. But other conge- 
nerous vegetables differ so widely in their time of flowering, that 
