AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
iv 
GENTLE reader, when you are wandering in 
our pretty English lanes, and through woods, 
and over heath, do you sometimes wish you 
knew a little more of the names and peculi- 
arities and associations of the gifts which Flora 
has strewn there? Ifso, I invite you to come 
with me in thought, whilst I tell you, from 
week to week, some few things about them 
which many years of pleased attention to them 
have enabled me to know. Pity it is that the 
simple beauties of our fields and waysides are 
necessarily encumbered with scientific names ; 
and as far as possible I will in these papers 
supply an English description of a number of 
our principal plants. 
During mild winters our banks are never 
without flowers ; but I will mention in order 
It 
