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as you see fit in the "British Flora." I intend to publish a little 

 volume, under the name of "Primitiae Florae Sarnicae," to include 

 a catalogue with localities of all the plants, above 700, which have 

 been found in the Channel Islands. As the value of this list will 

 not depend on a few new species, but upon the total list, I can have 

 no reason for desiring to prevent you from publishing the new 

 plants. I was in hopes to have had the pleasure of seeing you at 

 Liverpool, when I should have been glad to tell you all about the 

 Channel Islands. You may expect to receive a small packet from 

 me, in a month or two, through Hunneman. If you have any 

 duplicates of European plants they would be very acceptable, as I 

 am very desirous of obtaining continental species. You will be 

 sorry to learn that Mr. Borrer has injured his knee, and will not be 

 able to walk about for some months, if he should not be permanently 

 lame. I send this in haste in hopes that it may be in time for your 

 new edition. — Believe me, yours truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To Sir W. J. Hooker. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, Bee. 1, 1837. 



My dear Sir, — I now send you the plants from the Channel 

 Islands which I mentioned in my letter of about a month since. I 

 hope that you have found some part of the information then com- 

 municated of use to you in your 4th edition of the "British Flora." 

 If I can give you any further information it will give me great 

 pleasure, and you have only to let me know what will be acceptable 

 and I will, if possible, send it to you immediately. I send this 

 through the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. If you have any 

 duplicates of European plants they will be very acceptable, and of 

 great use. I am desirous of making my European herbarium as 

 full as I can. Specimens of newly-discovered native species will 

 also be very acceptable. — Believe me, dear Sir, yours most truly, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



To William Borrer, Esq. 



18, Haviland Street, Guernsey, July 13, 1838. 



Dear Sir, — As I suppose that you have now returned from your 

 tour into Wales, I send you a few lines to inform you of my pro- 

 gress in these islands. I am just returned from a visit to Alderney, 

 in which small island I spent a week, and have formed a list con- 

 sisting of 330 plants, natives of it. Sinapis incana is plentiful there 

 upon sandy ground, and also Brassica Cheiranthus, Arthrolobium 

 ebradeatum, and Lotus hispidus. Ononis reclinata is plentiful in one 

 part of the island (this does not grow in Jersey or Guernsey) ; 

 also Lotus angustissimus, and a very short spined form of Medicago 

 denticulata. I have gathered there a Thesium, probably pratense, in 

 some plenty, and an interesting form of Verbascum nigrum^ with 



