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inhabited island nearly at the Antipodes — Lord Auckland’s 
Island, south of New Zealand— the first evidence I met with of 
its having been previously visited by man was the English 
Chickweed. This I traced to a mound which marked the 
grave of a British sailor, which was covered with the plant, 
doubtless the offspring of seed that had adhered to the spade or 
mattock with which the grave had been dug. It was hence no 
surprise to me to find myself, on landing at Boston, U.S.A., 
greeted by Western European plants, that had established 
themselves as colonists in New England. Of these, the first 
was the wild Chicory, growing far more luxuriantly than I ever 
saw it elsewhere, forming a tangled mass of stem and branches, 
studded with turquoise blue blossoms, and covering acres of 
ground ; the very next plants that attracted my attention were 
the Ox-eye Daisy and the May-weed, which together whitened 
the banks in some places, and which I subsequently traced more 
than half-way across the Continent. These and more than two 
hundred and fifty other old English plants, which are now 
peopling New England, were for the most part fellow-emigrants 
and fellow-colonists with the Anglo-Saxon, having (as seeds) 
accompanied him across the Atlantic, and having, like him, 
asserted their supremacy over, and displaced, a certain number 
of natives of the soil.” 
HAMPSHIRE LOCAL NAMES. 
By W. M. E. FOWLER. 
AKING an interest in local names, I tried during the 
past year to find out what the children here (Liphook) 
call the commoner plants, but have not succeeded very 
well. The following, however are from my list : — 
Bread-and-cheese 
Shiver grass 
* Bee-flower 
Hedge lilies or lilies 
Hurts 
Ladies’ shoes ... 
Penny-winkles . . . 
Cats’ tails 
Lords-and-Ladies 1 
Bloody fingers J 
Cuckoo-sorrow (sorrel) 
Shirt-button ... 
^Smell-smock 
*Sailor-button 
’ ;: Yellow-spit... 
^Morning-star 
Malva sylvestris 
Briza media 
Seabiosa arvensis 
Convolvulus sepium 
Vaccinium Vitis I dee a 
Lotus corniculatus 
Vinca minor 
Typha latifolia 
Arum maculatum 
Rumex Acetosa 
Stellaria Holostea 
Oxalis Acetosella 
Any of the Campions 
Chelidonium majus 
Ornithogalum umbellatum 
