It was from the Sussex shingles that I started, and from the same shore my concluding picture shall be drawn--a quaint sea-posy that I picked there on an October afternoon, not so romantic, certainly, as one of violets or forget-me-nots, but in that sere season not less heartening than any nosegay of the spring. It held but three flowers, samphire, sea-rocket, and sea-heath. The samphire, at all times a singular and attractive herb, was now in fruit, and had faded to a wan yellow; the rocket was still in flower, its lilac blossoms crowning the solid glaucous stalk, and its thick fleshy leaves rivalling the texture of seaweed; the small sea-heath, with wiry reddish stems and dark-green foliage, lent itself by a natural contrast for twining around its bulkier companions. Thus grouped they stood for weeks in a vase on my mantel, until the time for wildflowers was overpast, and the "black and tan" days of winter were already let loose on the earth. And even when the year is actually at its lowest, the sunnier times can be revived and re-enacted in thought; for memory is potent as that wizard in Morris's poem, who in the depth of a northern Christmastide could so wondrously transform the season, That through one window men beheld the spring, And through another saw the summer glow, And through a third the fruited vines a-row; While still unheard, but in its wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day. Such flowery scenes has the writing of this little book brought back to me, and has robbed at least one winter of many cheerless hours. INDEX Alpine bartsia, 154; forget-me-not, 155; lady's-mantle, 177; meadow-rue, 153, 168, 174, 182; mouse-ear, 176; penny-cress, 107, 108; saw-wort, 170, 174, 178 Amberley Wild Brooks, 35, 36 Arnside, 124-7 Arundel Park, 35, 142 Avens, mountain, 155, 169, 172; water, 107, 132, 156 Baneberry, 126, 127, 129 Bellflower, ivy-leaved, 48, 148, 149, 172 Bladderwort, 34, 146, 147 Borage, 124 Butterwort, 87, 148, 177 Carpenter, Edward, 15, 45, 93, 100 Castleton, 108 Chiltern Hills, 16, 90, 94, 95 Cinquefoil, marsh, 147, 148, 156; shrubby, 152, 153; vernal, 105 Cloudberry, 110 Crabbe (quoted), 30, 78 Cranberry, 149 Crow-garlic, 92 Cuckmere Haven, 26 Cwm Glas, 165, 167-70 Cwm Idwal, 168-70 Dwale, 140 Farrer, Reginald, 66, 105, 129 Fritillary, 88, 89 Fungi, 80 Gentian, 72; marsh, 144, 145; vernal, 66, 154, 155 Gerarde, John, 49, 87, 88, 91, 98, 110, 124, 130, 134, 140, 142 Globe-flower, 147, 169, 170 Gorse, 51, 52 Hare's-ear, "common," 46, 56, 87, 91; slender, 26, 27 Hellebore, 126, 142 Hemlock, 143 Henbane, 140, 141 Hound's-tongue, 55, 71 Hudson, W. H., 12, 53 (note), 57, 88, 89 Hutchinsia, 47, 106, 123