Cotterill. 



behind. This leads over the fields, Alderley Edge a few 

 miles in front, and Cloud-end rising grandly upon the 

 horizon, then down a steep rough lane into a dingle 

 called Butts Clough, beyond which there is a green- 

 floored lane, leading to Warburton's farm, which being 

 passed, we bear to the right, and in ten minutes more 

 dip into the valley, and very soon tread the margin of the 

 stream. About a mile and a half further up, we come to 

 Castle Mill, an old-established and celebrated corn- 

 grinding concern and immediately opposite, the wooded 

 slopes of Cotterill, entered by crossing a single field. 

 The time to select for a first botanical visit to this charm- 

 ing spot should, if possible, be the end of April, or at 

 least before the expiration of May. The chief rarities of 

 the place belong to a somewhat later period, but there 

 are several that grow here abundantly, and are in perfec- 

 tion at the time named, which, although less uncommon, 

 it were a pity not to secure. Such are the goldilocks 

 and the arum. The former, a very graceful kind of 

 butter-cup, its name translated from the Latin one, 

 auricotmis, fringes the bank at the foot of the wood for a 

 long distance with its light feathery herbage and shining 

 yellow flowers; the other grows under the trees, and 

 among the brushwood, and in the part of the clough 

 through which the path leading to Ringway from Castle 

 Mill makes its way, thus being reachable without more 

 trespass than of twenty forgiven yards. Few persons 

 fond of cultivating plants in their parlours are unacquain- 

 ted with that truly splendid flower, the African lily, or 



