1842] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 285 



I have just discovered the flaps of your letter, and see that the 

 Jlerniaria is from Euan Minor. I consider it as H, glabra. It was 

 Lingwood who found the Tragopogon pratensis at Framfield. I did not 

 see the station, and have only one specimen of it. If I can find a 

 Haddiscoe Ballota remaining you shall have it. I had no opportunity 

 •of drying more than two or three, and fear that they are all gone. 

 I enclose a stick of Trifolium stridum, and can only say that the 

 specimen preserved for myself is hardly any better. They were 

 dried up when Mr. Newlaould found them, and as he did not 

 know the plant, it is possible that he may have overlooked better 

 specimens. 



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



St. John's College, Cambridge, Feb. 8, 1842. 



Dear Balfour, — I thought that I had long since informed you 

 that I had given up all intention of being a candidate at King's 

 College. They did not, or could not, come in to my terms, and so I 

 retired ; and Watson came forward (for he told me that he would 

 not if I did), and I have no doubt will get it. I think that the 

 College have some reason to thank me for this, as there can be no 

 doubt that he is far more likely to become a popular lecturer than 

 I was, as he will, I think, take just as much pains, and has several 

 advantages that I do not possess. I am much pleased to hear 

 that you have so good a class, and I hope that you will not 

 be puffed up with pride and dignity after such splendid puffs 

 in the papers, for be it known to you that I am acquainted 

 with the mode in which such things are done, so you had better 

 mind what you are about. There are but few Unio Itineraria 

 specimens in the French herbarium, and I do not now care so 

 much about being paid for duplicates, as I find that I am even now 

 within my income after paying for it. I must go through the whole 

 before I can distribute any, as the arrangement has become con- 

 siderably confused. That is a long job, and I have but little time 

 for doing it, as I work part of each day at the " Flora." I have been 

 examining the Barvas Eleocharis palustris with considerable care, 

 and am of opinion that it is E. uniglumis (Link), but not a species, 

 and scarcely even a variety. You see in the last " Phytologist " 

 that Watson is determined that I should have all the credit, or 

 rather discredit, of the changes in nomenclature in the catalogue. 

 He tells me that he has recommended the London Society to use it 

 for their "Correspondence," and so it is probable that it will sell 

 well. No review yet of the "Transactions," nor advertisement of 

 them or the "Catalogue." I wish that you would send me your 

 ideas about the paper I sent upon Dryas. Have you looked at 

 your own specimens with it ? — Believe me, very truly yours, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



