1841] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 283 



"English Botany" figure is bad, representing neither one plant nor 

 the other. It is an early plate, which will account for carelessness 

 about the form, etc., of such parts as the teeth of the calyx. I 

 think we must adopt the genus Trixago of Link for the Bartsia 

 viscosa, if we follow Smith's characters drawn from the seed, as it 

 appears to me that we ought to do. — Believe me, dear Sir, yours 

 truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To Professor J. H. Balfour, M.D. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, June 3, 1841. 



Dear Balfour, — I am truly glad to find that you are now all safe 

 in the Professorial Chair. You ask after my "Flora," but I grieve 

 to say that it cannot be ready for your first Glasgow course, 

 although I trust that it may be for the second. I am not so sorry 

 for this delay as might be expected, as I shall, I hope, make it so 

 much the better. The further I go, the more necessity I see for 

 diflfering from our English books in nearly everything. I have just 

 finished a paper upon Viola, which I shall produce at Plymouth, if 

 I go there, and then send to the "Annals." I find that the direction 

 ■of the cells of the anther, either parallel or diverging, differs in 

 several of our species, and have drawn up characters from these, 

 combined with the antherine spurs, stipules, and stems. When do 

 you start for the outer Hebrides, and what is likely to be the 

 expense of the trip ? as I should like very much to join you, but 

 fear the expense after my tour in Kerry. I do not much fancy the 

 Plymouth meeting without any of our usual clan, or at most but 

 very few. I hope to hear from you immediately upon the above 

 question, as I leave this place on Monday or Tuesday, and after a 

 week or so at Bath (8, Hanover Street), go to Cork, and thence to 

 Tralee or Dingle. Now for a secret, a real one that I wish you to 

 keep closely. Don is, I am sorry to say, very ill with cancer, and 

 so will, I fear, be soon obliged to give up the King's College Chair 

 in London. I have an idea of putting up for it when that takes 

 place, and I should like to know what you think of it, and if I 

 could get good testimonials from Edinburgh if I should want them. 

 I trust Don will be able to go on for some time, over another summer 

 perhaps ; but suppose that there is no doubt of his not being able 

 to hold out longer, even if so long. I hope Campbell has received 

 the recommendation of two new members, Messrs. Coleman and 

 Newbould, for the Botanical Society, which I sent lately. With 

 kind remembrances to my numerous Edinburgh friends, believe me, 

 most truly yours, Charles C. Babington. 



To the same. 



KiLLARNEY, July 7, 1841. 



Dear Balfour, — I write a few lines to say that I have given up 

 the Plymouth meeting, and therefore hope to be able to join your 



