8 IN THE HILLS ABOVE HENLEY. 
It is even so. I have obtained several blocks, and one remarkable 
mass in the wood leading up to Stoke Row Common is especially 
noticeable. It is in the vicinity of a public well, sunk some years 
ago by an Eastern Maharajah, for the benefit of the poor of this 
elevated spot, and the airy columns of the temple erected over it, 
and the tutelary elephant, contrast strangely with the old-world 
mass of hoary stone. 
North of this, in the short turf of Bix Common, we tread on 
the Buckshorn Plantain, and among the bushes around the Black 
Adiantum, the Hairy Green Weed, the Greater Dodder, and the 
rare Imperforate St. John’s Wort are found. In the tangled 
underwood hard by, startling, in the early year, by its contrast 
with the dead herbage of the past, the dark and sombre foliage 
of the ill-omened Green Hellebore is seen; and further on, in 
Page’s Bottom, I have obtained in successive seasons that most 
lovely and delicate of Ferns, the Oak Polypody. Above, on 
Maidens’ Grove,—hiding under hazel bushes, the 
‘Four round leaves and one green flower,”’ 
of Herb Paris are seen. The Evening Primrose and the Oxlip 
flourish here; and in the extensive Nettlebed woods, the Deadly 
Nightshade, the Lily of the Valley, Solomon’s Seal, and the 
Columbine. A bank here, bearing its name, is gay in the early 
spring with the delicate peach blossom of the Mezereon ; in 
the old and disused clay pits, the Hard Fern obtains luxuriantly, 
and farther west on Nutfield Common the local Moonwort. Ina 
paper where brevity is indispensable, I have only briefly indicated 
the Flora of these hills; the same exigency of space will be my 
excuse for the contracted record of Lepidoptera, and also the 
omission of the proper names of plants. 
Henley. i. Hos: 
Spawnine or Froas.—A friend tells me that he saw, about the 
middle of last month, frogs spawning on Erringden Moor (lat. 
53deg. 43min. N., long. ldeg. 62min. W.), 1200 feet above the 
sea level at Liverpool. Is not this somewhat peculiar, considering 
the latitude and altitude ? W. 4H. D: 
