IN THE HILLS ABOVE HENLEY. 7 
avers that .4. Lathonia has occurred)—the graceful, floating, 
sweep of Paphia, and the golden glitter and silvery sheen of its 
wings in the sunlight, are “‘ things of beauty ” to be remembered 
ever after. In the margin of this wood I discovered last year, a 
new locality for A. Galathea, and by the capture in successive 
seasons of Bloomerii, a wider range may be ascribed to this lovely 
Geometra. The best of the Flora of this wood consists of Winter 
Green, Mountain Speedwell, and Upright Fly Honeysuckle; the 
first of these in large masses, the last a single specimen and very 
doubtful native. Emerging from the wood we come on the old 
domain of Grey’s Court, the gabled roofs and massive towers of the 
mansion crowning the broken ascent of the Park. The thornhedges 
enclosing it are marvels of antiquity, and grey with the moss and 
lichen of centuries. The high-road to Rotherfield Greys leads 
between these hedges, and I well remember when driving through 
some ten autumns ago, the delight of my companions as cloud after 
cloud of the gorgeous V. Atalanta rose from the ivy blossom 
which clothes them, at our approach. In a copse at the head of 
the wood the earth is flecked in the early spring with the Snow- 
drop, and in the underwood above the park, 
“Thick as leaves in Vallambrosa,” 
the Daffodils, in the clearings, dazzling the eye with their golden 
masses. Preferable, because more dispersed, is another habitat 
of this flower in the wood at High Moor; passing across a se- 
cluded meadow hemmed in on two sides by woods, and with a 
dark pool overhung by trees in the centre, the scene of a darker 
legend, we enter this wood. In its green alleys and delle, and 
peeping out from amid the decaying herbage of the past year, the 
Daffodil is a graceful flower, the delicate green of its foliage 
aiding its beauty. The late Miss Mitford,—whose magic pen 
could confer immortality on a tuft of early Primroses, or a patch 
of Woodsorrel, and who, like Gilbert White, has made a secluded 
village famous for all time,—writing some twenty years ago of a 
Visit to these hills, enumerates, among their denizens, the Orchids 
and Fungi as extensively prevalent; and also refers to the fre- 
querit occurrence of the strange compound, known as agglomerate. 
