Caryophylleæ
Deptford Pink (Dianthus Armeria).—This used to grow in a field near Highbridge, but has been destroyed, either purposely or by fencing.
Bladder Campion (Silene inflata).—Showing its white flowers and swelling calyxes everywhere.
Common Catchfly (S. anglica).—Small and insignificant among corn.
Red Campion (Lychnis diurna).—Robins, as children call it, with the bright pink in every hedge and the undergrowth in every copse.
White C. (L. vespertina).—The white flowers make a feature in fallow fields.
Ragged Robin (L. Flos-cuculi).—The curiously slashed and divided pink flowers flourish in the water-meadows by the Itchen.
Corn Cockle (Agrostemma githago).—The beautiful purple blossoms, set in long graceful calyxes, adorn the paths through wheat and barley fields everywhere.
Lesser Stitchwort (Mænchia erecta).—
Chickweed—
(Cerastiurn vulgatum) Early plant. Uninteresting
(C. arvense) tiny white flowers.
Starwort (Stellaria Holostea).—The bright stitches of white embroidery on our banks.
Chickweed (S. media.)—The chickweed dear to bird-keepers.
(S graminea).—Cobweb-like, almost invisible stems, and blossom with a fairy brightness over the heaths.
(S. uliginosa).—The same adapted to marshes—Cuckoo Bushes, Helmsley.
Sandwort (Arenaria Rubra).—The little pink flowers crop up through the gravel paths.
Corn Spurrey (Spergula arvensis).—Very long-spurred, with white small blossoms.
(Alsine tenuifolia).—Roman road between Hursley and Sparsholt.
Knawel (Scleranthus annuus).—Hursley.