Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).—It is believed that no hurt is so hard of healing as from a blackthorn. Also blackthorn winter is supposed to bring fresh cold in spring, when the bushes almost look as if clothed by hoar-frost.
Wild Cherry (P. Avium).—The fine, tall, shapely trees put on their bridal show in the woods of Cranbury and Ampfield.
Bird-Cherry (P. Padus).—Not very common. There is one in the grounds at Otterbourne House, but it is not certainly wild.
Meadow-Sweet (Spiræa Ulmaria).—Raising its creamy cymes of blossoms in every ditch where there is a little moisture.
Dropwort (S. Filipendula).—On the borders of Pitt Down and Crab Wood.
Agrimony (Agrimonia Eupatoria).—Long yellow spikes in all dry hedges.
Burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis).—Chalk-pit by Sparrow Grove, also Dane Lane, where the green balls with tiny red blossoms may be found, and sometimes the green and crimson burnet moth.
Barren Strawberry (Potentilla Fragariastrum).—How often has “mustn’t pick the strawberry blossom” been quoted to this delusive little white cinquefoil in early spring, when it peeps out among leaves very like strawberry-leaves in the hedge.
Tormentil (P. Tormentilla).—This is now ranged among the cinquefoils, though it has only four petals, owing perhaps to the very dry barren heathy soil it brightens with its stars.
Cinquefoil (P. repens).—A smiling pentagon star by the wayside.