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trees standing. It consists of sallow, birch, bramble, hazel, poplar, 
wild cherry, dogwood, ash, dewberry (Rubus cesius), &c. In spring 
the cleared portions present a very beautiful appearance. Blue 
with wild hyacinths (Hndymion nutans) and common bugle (Ajuga 
reptans), these are mixed with wood spurge (Euphorbia amygda- 
loides), dwarf honeysuckle, common ferns, and beautiful patches 
of the lovely little germander speedwell (Veronica Chamedrys)— 
‘Not for thy azure tint, though bright, 
Nor form so elegantly light, 
I single thee, thou lovely flower, 
From others of the sylvan bower. 
Thy name alone is like a spell, 
And whispers love in ‘ Speed thee well.’” 
‘In May and June a sharp look-out should be kept for the large 
clear-winged moths, Macroglossa fuciformis and M. bombyliformis, 
feeding on the bugle flowers. The latter is less likely to occur than 
the former, although the food of its larve, the devil’s-bit scabious 
(Scabiosa succisa), grows plentifully in places. 
Returning to the gate, through which we have just entered the 
wood, we pass along the broad path, noting the fine sugaring ground 
this would make; in fact, the whole wood seems most suitable for 
sugaring. A dozen or twenty entomologists could sugar with 
comfort at one time in these woods, and barely see one another 
during the evening. We shortly come to a fairly good road, which 
runs through the wood at right angles north and south. This road 
leads to Oxhey Hall, and on to Watford. This and other roads 
are marked, ‘‘ No thoroughfare,” but I do not think there is any 
difficulty in using them; at least, a keeper whom I met one day 
this week made no remark, but looked as though he had never 
before seen a butterfly net. 
To the right of where we join this road is a fine stretch 
of woodland, with some larch and spruce firs in one corner, and a 
quantity of dwarf hornbeam farther on. I will now leave the 
entomologist to wander at his will, and to catch all he can until 
tired, when he ust meet me again at the point where we parted, 
by the corner of the field which is cleared in the wood. We will 
now make our way by another route towards the station; it is by 
turning to the south along this road through the wood. In about 
a quarter of an hour it brings us clear of the Pinner Woods through 
ahigh gate, with a cottage to the right and a lodge to the left of 
us as we emerge. 
