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the leaves much more woolly, and the flowers smaller. Alder- 

 ney is not more than five or six miles in length, and from one-and- 

 a-half to two in width. It is a lofty table land, with cliffs over the 

 sea in all parts, except three or four bays, which have extensive 

 sands. It appears to me to be peculiarly rich in interesting plants, 

 far more so in proportion to its size than either of the other islands, 

 and I think that I have done well to obtain so many plants in it in 

 a week. I am going soon to Sark, which, I am informed, is likely 

 to supply me with a numerous list of plants. As this latter visit 

 depends somewhat upon the leisure of Mr. Lukis (a resident naturalist 

 here, of whom you may have heard as having studied Lichens and 

 Fuci), I cannot tell how soon I may return to England. Mr. Lukis 

 has not paid much attention to botany of later years, and has lost 

 (by some person not returning it to him) his list of Lichens and 

 Fuci for Guernsey. He now is busily employed in excavating and 

 examining the numerous druidical remains with which these islands 

 abound. He has a very valuable collection of druidical vases, cells, 

 etc. Have you seen Hooker's 4th edition ? He has given Christy 

 credit for conjoint work with me. Nothing can be more incorrect. 

 He was out with me on three days during seven weeks, on two of 

 which he was under my pilotage. When you are writing to Hooker 

 you will perhaps incidentally mention that he had next to nothing to 

 do with my work. If any person was to be mentioned, it ought to 

 have been Lingwood, who was with me in almost every walk during 

 the whole time. Why has not William come here ? I have been 

 expecting him, and a letter from you also ever since my arrival here. 

 I have sent off to-day a second packet for Sowerby, containing 

 Sinapis incana, S. redinata, Arthrolohium ebradeatum, Thesmm pratense, ( 1) 

 Lotus hispidus, and angustissimus, and as it will take him a very 

 short time, I have advised him to make drawings of all of them, 

 and we can publish such as have not yet appeared. One of the 

 Lotuses is published, but if my memory is correct, it is a bad figure. 

 Kindest remembrances to your family, and believe me to be yours 

 most truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To the same. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, Aug. 13, 1838. 



My dear Sir, — In "Loudon's Magazine of Natural History," 

 Vol. IV., p. 28, will be found a paper, by the Rev. W. T. Bree, upon 

 the Irish station of Iris tuberosa, and a good woodcut of the plant 

 (marked figure 9, p. 29). He says that Mr. Drummond, the curator 

 of the Botanic Garden at Cork, shewed him " an old hedge bank at 

 no great distance from the town," which was full of it, and that 

 although then not in flower, yet by digging " as it were at random," 

 he obtained "a good handful of the roots," which Mr. Bree has 

 cultivated ever since. Mr. Drummond said that it flowered well, 

 and was found in another spot (as Mr. Bree thinks) near an old ruin 



