Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club . all extremely-*? rural in character, and of these the route chosen for the afternoons excur-sion led the visitors through eight. Starting from Loughton Station about threeoclock, the members were driven through perhaps the prettiest parts of that. Theydon Gaunon Church (Winter).From a Drawing by H. A. Cole. parish, past Loughton Hall and the little memorial church of St. Nicholas, intoEnglands Lane, by the charming hamlet of Debden Green (where a specimen ofthe little Beech Hook-lip moth, Drepana /.;/^?«(7//(/, was observed), and so
Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club . all extremely-*? rural in character, and of these the route chosen for the afternoons excur-sion led the visitors through eight. Starting from Loughton Station about threeoclock, the members were driven through perhaps the prettiest parts of that. Theydon Gaunon Church (Winter).From a Drawing by H. A. Cole. parish, past Loughton Hall and the little memorial church of St. Nicholas, intoEnglands Lane, by the charming hamlet of Debden Green (where a specimen ofthe little Beech Hook-lip moth, Drepana /.;/^?«(7//(/, was observed), and so throughthe avenue across Theydon Bois Green. The weather was delightful, a somewhat strong breeze tempering the warmthof the brilliant sunshine. \^ery welcome were the sweet odours of profusion of May blossoms and opening tree buds, the almost magical luxuriance of thehedgerows, winding through miles upon miles of broad upland meadows which I THE ESSEX FIELD 103 were glistening with the bright golden buttercups and specified with daisies andcucI<oo-flowers. The bordering coppices were voiceful with birds and the min-gled hum of insects, while overhead the clear blue sky, on either side glimpsesof thatched and red-tiled cottages embowered in flowers, beyond white mansions inundulating tim
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