JANUARY. 



after their " night-out/' while the smell and sound of 

 breakfast (of which we have partaken) ascends in 

 gushes from the kitchens of the various houses, as we 

 hurry on our way to the terminus of the " South-Eastern 

 Railway/ 7 to catch the quarter past-eight o'clock train 

 for Norwood, " en route" to West Wickham Wood. 



Having obtained our tickets and taken our seats, our 

 iron horse soon begins to feel the collar, and with a 

 puff and a snort he commences the journey. " Now 

 we're off!" exclaim one or two of the passengers, which 

 is the maximum of the conversation we may expect to 

 hear until we reach our destination. 



Having reached the Norwood station, alighted and 

 given up our tickets to the porter, we recommence our 

 journey on foot, taking the Addington road ; and even 

 now we are in good collecting ground, the lanes on our 

 road are bounded by fine hedges, principally composed 

 of whitethorn, privet and dwarf maple, while the banks 

 underneath them are covered with herbage of good 

 growth, consisting of ground-ivy (Glechoma hedera- 

 cea), flea-bane {Inula dysenterica), burdock [Arctium 

 Lappa), wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca), perfo- 

 rated St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum), 

 together with black-knapweed, goose-foot, cow-parsley, 

 mouse-ear chickweed, A?*temisia, and a host of other 

 plants, all of which form food for the objects of our 

 search ; let us commence : 



If we stoop down and examine the grass upon that 

 hedge-bank we shall see that some of the blades, in- 

 stead of being flat as usual, are rolled up from the 

 bottom upwards, and that some of these rolled leaves 

 are attached by their points to others in their neigh- 



