16 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1832—33 



Sept. 7. Found Senecio saracenicus at Thatchmore, near a house, 

 but my uncle (Canon Gisborne) says quite wild. 



Sept. 10. Went to Tutbury, about six miles from the Lodge ; 

 saw the castle, and a very fine Norman church door. I obtained a 

 number of the coins found in the river Dove (See Sir C. Mosley's 

 *' History of Tutbury "). Found Fedicularis sylvatica and a Mentha. 



Sept. 12. Left the Lodge for Bath. When at Birmingham, 

 I went again to see Weaver's Museum. 



1833. March 20. Fees for M.A. Degree : 



£19 5 6 



April 22. Henslow commenced his lectures ; this is the sixth 

 course that I have attended. 



May 9. Professor Henslow's botanical expedition to Gamlingay. 

 We had one stage coach. 



May 16. Botanical expedition to the fens in the conservators' 

 barge. 



May 23. To Linton ; this was the first time that the botanical 

 party went there. I then first saw growing JBotrychium Lunaria, 

 Aceras anthropophora, Habenaria viridis. 



June 1. Henslow, Power, Broome, and myself went to a wood 

 near Baitsbite to get some very fine plants of Ophrys apifera. On 

 the way found Galium erectum at Fen Ditton. 



June 4. I went to town and attended the meeting of the 

 Linnean Society. 



June 5. Mr. Solly showed me the circulation of the sap in the 

 filaments of the Tradescantia. 



June 8. Started by coach to Colchester to visit Holmes 



Went to Mersea Island, it is only accessible at low water, botanized 

 there, found many plants. {See Herbarium.*) 



June 12. Botanized along the coast to the south of the town 

 (Harwich). First saw Poa distans and F. maritima, Rotthoellia incurva, 

 and Hordeum maritimum. 



June 15. Holmes and I went in his father's gig to Tiptree 

 Heath, a few miles south of Copford, and found a great number of 

 plants. I first found Trigonella ornithopodidides. 



* This reference is intended to convey the fact that the plants found in Mersea Island may 

 be seen in the Cambridge Univei'sity Herbarium. 



