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siderable ; above the wood grows especially that beauti- 

 ful sweet-scented kind dedicated in name to the nymphs 

 of the hills, who once upon a time danced round 

 Diana 



" Hinc atque hinc glomerantur Oreades." 



Many are the elegant and poetical names borne by our 

 ferns and wild-flowers, and even by mosses and water- 

 weeds, yet none- perhaps excel this of the fern called 

 Oreopteris. It is well to be reminded by them that 

 scientific nomenclature is something more than Greek 

 and Latin, and a burden for the memory, and that all 

 the best and oldest portion of it lies bosomed in poesy. 

 The mythical Oreads themselves are not required, for 

 we have better ones in our live companions, but of the 

 memory of them it would be an irreparable loss to be 

 despoiled : 



' ' The intelligible forms of ancient poets, 

 The fair humanities of old religion, 

 The power, the beauty, and the majesty, 

 That had their haunts in dell, or piny mountain, 

 Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, 

 Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished ; 

 They live no longer in the faith of reason ; 

 But still the heart doth need a language ; still 

 Doth the old instinct bring back the old names." 



Returning into Cheshire by the bridge, it is easy to find 

 the way over Werneth-Lowe to Hyde or Woodley. 

 Remaining in Derbyshire, Charlesworth Coombs will be 

 a great reward, or upon the opposite side of the line, 



