I2O Hanging-banks Wood. 



Going along the western margin of Lindow, then 

 through various lanes, and past " Dooley's farm," we 

 reach that portion of the Bollin valley which lies be- 

 tween Norcliffe and Cotterill a bit of the country re- 

 markably interesting to naturalists, and that yields to 

 none in picturesque beauty. The best part of it is that 

 near "Hanging-banks wood," the ground being there 

 much undulated and broken, and the Bollin winding 

 amid declivities ; while right and left are glens and hol- 



Fic. 19. 

 Jungerman'nia tomentella. 



lows, that shelter ferns, and from which rise the tallest 

 trees. All the meadow-plants of the Bollin valley grow 

 here, and mostly in profusion, primroses and orchises 



