O VOICES FROM THE WOODLANDS. 



Patches of lungwort diversify the same locality, not 

 growing with their brethren in the full light of day, but 

 rather on the shady side of the old stone ; and among them 

 is the grey, and wrinkled sulphur lichen, the one yielding a 

 deep yellow, the other a pale orange- colour. Preferring, 

 in like manner, a damp and shady place of growth, the 

 creeping verrucose lichen, from which a bright blue is ex- 

 tracted, has fixed its roots in the same habitat. You will 

 riot find the blistered lichen in their dull company, with its 

 brown foliage, consisting of a single leaf. This cheerful 

 species incrusts our domicile towards the south ; it loves to 

 bask in the bright sunshine, as if to heighten the beautiful 

 red colour which it contains : and yet, however brilliant, 

 that colour when extracted is capable of being changed into 

 an excellent black. 



Others of our tribe pertain to the ravine, imbedded either 

 on huge masses of ruptured rocks, or else mantling old 

 trees with their pendent tufts. Yonder stunted pollard, 

 which stands singly beside the rush of the torrent, is hoary 



