131.

on the Easter hunt in Epping Forest,

of Old Pendle, 211.

Balade of Maryage, 211.

Bamboos, 336.

Bannockburn, battle of, 276.
Barbary, forests of, 348.

Barnsdale Forest, 226.

Barton, Bernard, on the oak, 42.

Baynard Castle, 232.

Bears used for sport, 283.

Beasts of forest and chase, 281.
Beauclerc, Henry, 266.
Beaulieu Abbey, 159.

founded by King John, 159.
description of, 160.

Beaumont and Fletcher, mention of the
fern, 74.

Bedford, Duke, arrests Joanna of Na-
varre, 145.

Beech-tree, nuts of, 65.

magnificent specimen of, 66.
peculiar formation of leaves, 66.
immense, near Sawyer's Lodge, 107.
Behra Doun, 321.

Bek, Sir Anthony, 253.
Belstone, cottage at, anecdote of, 188.
Belvidere at Virginia Water, 106.
Ben Jonson's lines on the Sidney oak, 48.

New Inn, reference to the fern, 74.
the Gipsies metamorphosed, 116.
Berners, Dame Juliana, prioress of the
Sopewell Nunnery, 279.
Berthelot, M., 346.

Bess of Hardwick, anecdote of, 241.
Bialowiéza, forest of, 354.

Bible, the forests mentioned in, 350.
Bilhaugh, 225.

Binfield, a pretty village in Windsor
Forest, 109.

Bingley's Animal Biography, note, 289.
Birch, the, termed by Coleridge

Lady of the Woods," 64.

Birds of the New Forest, 168.

habits of, 294.

"the

Bishopsgate Heath, residence of Shelley,
98.

Bishopston, the largest sycamore at, 65.
Black Forest of Russia, 353.

Sea, coast of the, 351.

Blackbird, description of, by Thomson,

293.

Blackburnshire Forest, 207.

Blackstone's definition of a forest, 37.
Blakeney, a little village near Newnham,
202.