Gentian Tribe
The Periwinkle (Vinca minor).—Curiously irregular in blossoming. One spring the ground is covered with blue stars, another only with evergreen trails. Its only habitat here is Lincoln’s Copse.
Yellowwort (Chlora perfoliata).—Ampfield Wood.
Centaury (Erythræa Centaurea).—Cranbury.
Gentian (Gentiana Pneunomanthe).—Baddesley bog, Cranbury.
(G. Amarella).—Pitt Down.
Bogbean (Menyanthes trifolium).—This lovely flower abides in the wet banks of the Itchen.
Bindweed (Convolvulus sepium).—Pure and white.
(C. minor).—In shades of pink. Called lilies by the country-folk.
Dodder (Cuscuta Epithymum).—Red threads forming a beaded network over the furze.
(C. Trifolii).—Coarser fibres, smaller balls of blossom, in some years strangling the clover.
Woody Nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara).—Purple flowers, red berries, beautiful everywhere.
(S. nigrum).—White-flowered, black-berried. At Cranbury, and occasionally elsewhere.
Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladonna).—Used to be near the front door at Hursley Park.
Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger).—Formerly on the top of Compton Hill, and at the angle of the lane leading to Bunstead.