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I hope that your son William is coming up to vote for Kippist ; 

 I fear that votes will be wanted. 



[Note to above Letter. — Babington's Aira eaespitosa, variety Langa. 

 Examine this thoroughly; the flowers look more like those of A. 

 alpina, although the stalk of the raised floret is hairy. Calama' 

 grostis lapponica : compare this carefully with the Forfar C. striata^ 

 and both with Wahl. My Irish specimens diflPer more in appearance 

 from each other. I have some of them from a specimen of C. stricta 

 given me by the elder G. Don. I have C. stricta from Arnott looking 

 different from both, but it is in a bad state. Brassica orientalise 

 Roberts, Lam. ; Erysimum virgatum, Orohus niger, TJrtica dioica, 

 no label.— W. B.] 



To the same. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, May 21, 1842. 



My dear Sir, — I am sorry to hear that the death of Mr. C E. 

 Sowerby is not unlikely to cause a discontinuance of the Supplement 

 to " English Botany," and therefore write to you to enquire if you 

 do not think that something might be done to cause its continu- 

 ance. I should be much grieved to find that it is really to stop. 

 The reason, I am told, is, that the numbers forming part of the 

 third volume have not paid their expenses. Now I suspect that if 

 we could learn how many additional subscribers are wanting to 

 cover the expense, then we might easily obtain that additional 

 number. It would certainly be advisable that it should be in the 

 hands of James Sowerby in future, and that he would come to some 

 engagement to publish the numbers at some regular interval, by 

 binding himself to you, or some one else who would take sufficient 

 interest in the work, to ensure its continuance. Do take the matter 

 in hand, and press it upon him strongly. He has now many draw- 

 ings of flowering plants in his hands, many of which have never 

 been figured, and numerous others (to say nothing of Cryi^togameae) 

 remain to be drawn. I hope to hear from you on the subject, and 

 that an arrangement may be soon made. I trust that all your 

 family are now restored to health ; be pleased to remember me to 

 them, and believe me to be, very sincerely yours, Charles C. 

 Babington. 



To the same. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, June 20, 1842. 



My dear Sir, — Many thanks for the Barharea stricta, which I now 

 feel satisfied is a true species. You have been most successful in 

 this genus ; adding two species, for I consider the B. arcuata as an 

 equally good one. The B. stricta is well figured by Reich enbach in 

 his Icones, f.4355, and yours is certainly the plant of Koch, and 

 also of Wimmer and Grabowski, " Flora Silesiaca " ii., 277. I have 

 been unable to ascertain the date of "Besser eu. pi. Volk," in which 

 Andrzej gave the name of stricta, but fear that it is older than Fries, 

 Nov. ed. 2. As to the Stijoa upon Rumbold's Moor, all I can say 



