22 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1834 



June 13. Bath. 



June 16. Went to the lane near to Prior Park to get Euphorbia 

 epithym&ides ; obtained forty-four specimens of it, in a very good state 

 for drying. 



June 17. Gathered on the canal bank 120 specimens of Carex 

 remota, to dry for Henslow's Botanical Collections, fasc. 2. 



June 20. Gathered specimens of Euphorbia epithijmdides in the 

 wood near Prior Park for W. Christy. 



June 21. Took fourteen specimens of Chrysomela graminis in the 

 lane between Swainswick and Batheaston. 



June 23. Gathered at Batheaston sixty-four specimens of 

 Digraphis arundinacea to dry for the Cambridge Botanical Collections. 



June 24. Meeting and Show of the Bath Horticultural Society. 

 I, being a member of the Committee, was in attendance at Sydney 

 Gardens at seven in the morning to assist in arranging the plants, 

 etc. At half-past nine breakfasted with Mr. Goodrich, and then 

 returned to the gardens. At about eleven o'clock I was appointed 

 a Censor of the prizes for cottagers and for vegetables, conjointly 

 with two practical men. At two the public were admitted on 

 payment of 2s. 6d. each, or producing a ticket. "We had a large 

 tent in the centre of the garden for the show of flowers, and the 

 people spread themselves all over the gardens. At five the rest of 

 those who chose to come were admitted at Is. each, and we proceeded 

 almost immediately to pay the prizes. I did not get away till half- 

 past eight in the evening. The sum taken at the door nearly £100. 



June 27. Found the note appended, from Mr. Borrer, upon 

 whom I immediately called. He gave me a number of plants 

 gathered by him in Wales. We then went to the station of 

 Euphorbia {epithijmdides ?), and afterwards, by means of a fly, to the 

 station of Lysimachia thyrsiflora. We dined together at the York 

 House, and had a great deal of most interesting botanical conversation. 



Note. — " Mr. Borrer requests of Mr. Babington a direction to the stations 

 of Euphorbia epithymdides. York House. Friday morning." 



July 1. Mr. E. Colli ngs, of Saville Row, and I took a gig to 

 Cheddar. We started at two o'clock. Went through Corston, 

 Marksbury, Chelwood, Stanton Wick, Stowey, West Harptree, 

 and then, instead of turning to the left and ascending the Mendip 

 Hills, we went on by Compton Martin, Ubley, and Blagdon, there 

 turned up the hill, and after some difficulty found our way down 

 through the cliffs to Cheddar. 



July 2. At 6 a.m. I went to the rocks, and after much climbing 

 found a few plants of the Dianthus growing on nearly inaccessible 

 parts of the cliff. I also found on the rocks Thalidrum minus, 

 Meconopsis cambrica, Polypodium Bryopteris, etc We took our 



