Produced by Simon Gardner, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note This plain text version of the book uses the ASCII character set only. Ae and ae is used for the ae ligature (upper and lower case). [:a], [:o] are used for a and o with umlaut. ['e], ['u] are used for e and u with acute accent. [e'] is used for e with grave accent. [oe] is used for the oe ligature. [^u] is used for u with circumflex accent. [L] is used to represent the Pound (Sterling) symbol. Minor changes to punctuation and formatting are made without comment. Changes to the text, to correct typographical errors, are listed as follows: Page 69 (paragraph on the Eared Sallow): changed "that" to "than" (... which are usually less than two inches long,...) * * * * * A LIST OF THE VOLUMES IN THE WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND SERIES WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND BLOSSOMS A Pocket Guide to British Wild Flowers, for the Country Rambler. (First and Second Series.) With clear Descriptions of 760 Species. By EDWARD STEP, F.L.S. And Coloured Figures of 257 Species by MABEL E. STEP. WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES A Pocket Guide to the British Sylva. By EDWARD STEP, F.L.S. With 175 Plates from Water-colour Drawings by MABEL E. STEP and Photographs by HENRY IRVING and the Author. WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND FERNS A Pocket Guide to the British Ferns, Horsetails and Club-Mosses. By EDWARD STEP, F.L.S. With Coloured Figures of every Species by MABEL E. STEP. And 67 Photographs by the Author. THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES A Pocket Guide for the Country Rambler. With clear Descriptions and Life Histories of all the Species. By RICHARD SOUTH, F.E.S. With 450 Coloured Figures photographed from Nature, and numerous Black and White Drawings. THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES (First and Second Series). A Complete Pocket Guide to all the Species included in the Groups formerly known as Macro-lepidoptera. By RICHARD SOUTH, F.E.S. With upwards of 1500 Coloured Figures photographed from Nature, and numerous Black and White Drawings. AT ALL BOOKSELLERS. _Full Prospectuses on application to the Publishers--_ FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. LONDON: 15, Bedford Street, Strand. NEW YORK: 12, East 33rd Street. WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. [Illustration: _Pl. 1._ Flowers of Horse Chestnut. _Frontispiece._] Wayside and Woodland Trees