Goldilocks (R. auricomus).—More delicate, upper leaves spear-shaped, lower pinnate. In the borders of the copse wood of Otterbourne House.
Corn Crowfoot (R. Ficaria).—Small, growing between the corn with hooked capsules.
Small Celandine (R. Bcaria).—The real buttercup of childhood, with its crown of numerous shining petals, making stars along the banks at the first breath of spring. One of the most welcome of flowers.
King Cups (Caltha palustris).—Large, gorgeous flowers, in every wet place, making a golden river in a dell at Cranbury.
Green Hellebore (Helleborus viridis).—Under an oak-tree, in a hedgerow leading from King’s Lane, Standon, and in Hursley.
Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis).—The pretty purple blossoms and graceful bluish foliage often spring up in gardens where they are treated as weeds.
Yellow F. (F. lutea).—An old wall at Hursley.
Climbing F. (Corydalis claviculata).—Cuckoo bushes. Standon, and in Hursley.
Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris).—This group of purple doves, or of Turkish slippers, does not here merit the term vulgaris, though, wherever it occurs, it is too far from a garden to be a stray. Ampfield Wood, Lincoln’s Copse, King’s Lane, and Crabwood have each furnished a specimen.
Barberry (Berberis vulgaris).—This handsome shrub of yellow wood, delicate clusters of yellow flowers, and crimson fruit in long oval bunches has been sedulously banished from an idea that it poisons grass in its vicinity. There used to be a bush in Otterbourne House grounds, but it has disappeared, and only one now remains in the hedge of Pitt Downs.