John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne Part 26

DOG'S G. (Agrostis canina).

(A. alba).

(A. vulgaris).

REED (Arundo Phragmites).--Waving brown ta.s.sels, beautiful for adornments--Itchen banks, and hedge of allotments on Otterbourne Hill.

MILLET GRa.s.s (Milium effusum).

HAIR G. (Aira flexuosa).

(A. aespitosa).--Tufts on the hill, Otterbourne.

WILD OATS (Avena fatua).--Grown far more common than formerly.

(A. strigosa).

(A. pratensis).

(A. flavescens).

SOFT GRa.s.s (Holcus mollis).

MELICK (Melica caerulea).--Cranbury.

(M. uniflora).--Dell Copse.

WHORL GRa.s.s (Catabrosa aquatica).--The moat, Otterbourne.

(Glyceria nutans).--The moat.

MEADOW G. (Poa rigida).

(P. annua).

(P. nemoralis).

(P. pratensis).

(P. trivialis).

QUAKER'S G. (Briza media).

(B. minor).

DOG'S-TAIL G. (Cynosurus cristatus).

c.o.c.k'S-FOOT G. (Dactylis glomerata).

FESCUE (Festuca ovina).

(F. pratensis).

(F. lolacea).

BROME GRa.s.s (Bromus giganteus).--Cranbury.

(B. asper).

(B. sterilis).

(B. racemosus).

(B. mollis).

(B. arvensis).

COUCH G. (Tritic.u.m caninum).

(T. repens).

RYE G. or MOUSE BARLEY (Lolium perenne).--Also Darnel.

FERNS, ETC.

BRACKEN (Pteris aquilina).--All over Cranbury.

HARD FERN (Blechnum boreale).--Mallibar Road between Albrook and Highbridge.

WALL-RUE (Asplenium Ruta-muraria).

BLACK MAIDENHAIR (A. Trichomanes).--Used to be on tombstones in old churchyard, Otterbourne.

LADY FERN (Athyrium Filix faemina).--Cranbury.

(Ceterach officinale).--Merdon Castle.

HART'S TONGUE (Scolopendrium officinale).

(Polystichum angulare).--Cranbury.

MALE FERN (Lastrea Filix-mas).

(L. spinulosa).

(L. dilatata).--Otterbourne Park.

(L. thalipteris).--Cranbury.

HAY F. (L. Oreopteris).--Road to Baddesley.

POLYPODY (Polypodium vulgare).

ADDER'S TONGUE (Ophioglossum vulgare).--Field called Pleasure Grounds, Otterbourne.

HORSETAILS (Equisetum arvense).

(E. maximum).

Footnotes:

{17} Hursley ceased to be a Peculiar about the year 1840.

{25} Hurstleigh, as it was originally spelt, is derived from Hurst, a wood, Legh or Lea, a meadow or open place in a wood.

{28} The General Biographer's Dictionary says 51 in all.

{32} So says the Register, but I suspect ERRONEOUSLY. Ardington was the place in which the family of Clarkes was settled. Sir Edward Clarke, probably the son of Sir Thomas, was High Sheriff of Berks in 1626 (Marsh).

{34} Halliwell's dictionary gives haydiggle (Somerset) as meaning high spirits, and once a country dance.

{36} From Father Gasquet's essay on the Recusants in The Old English Bible.