Umbellifera
Goutweed (Ægopodium Podagra).—Handsome leaves, but a troublesome weed.
Pignut (Bunium flexuosum).—The delicate, lace-like, umbellate flowers in all the woods.
Water Dropwort (Œnanthe fistulosa).—Banks of Itchen.
Water Hemlock (Œ. crocata).—Itchen banks.
Wild Carrot (Daucus Carota).
Burnet Saxifrage (Pimpinella Sax Jraga).—Hursley.
Cow Parsley (Chærophyllum sylvestre).—Boys may be seen bearing home bundles for their rabbits.
Shepherd’s Needle (Scandix Pecten Veneis).—In cornfields.
Hedge Parsley (Torilis infesta).—Hursley.
Hemlock (Conium maculatum).
Ivy (Hedera Helix).—Everywhere.
Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea).—The red and purple of the fading leaves mixed with the yellow of the maples make every hedge a study.
Mistletoe (Viscum album).—Grows on hawthorns in Hursley Park, and on apple-trees at Otterbourne.
Moscatel (Adoxa Moschatellina).—This dainty little green-headed plant is one of the harbingers of spring.
Elder (Sambucus nigra).—In most hedges, though its honours are gone as the staple of elder-wine, and still better of elder-flower water, which village sages used to brew, and which was really an excellent remedy for weak eyes.
Guelder-Rose (Viburnum Opulus).—Equally handsome whether white-garlanded cymes of blossoms or scarlet berries, waxen when partly ripe.
Wayfaring-Tree (V. Lantana).—Not quite so common, but handsome, with white flowers and woolly leaves.
Honeysuckle (Lonicera Periclymenum).—To be seen in full glory waving on the top of a holly-tree, and when the stem has become amalgamated with a bough, circling it like the staff of Esculapius, it is precious to boys.
(L. Caprifolium).—Noted as once found, but not lately.