292 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1843—44 



invitation, and therefore still expect we shall meet in August at Cork. 

 I am beginning to get very angry with the Botanical Society, and I 

 think I must give them up soon if they do not improve. I certainly 

 shall not canvass for new members at present. I believe 1 have 

 obtained as many as any person, and they must expect no more 

 until things mend. The MS. of my Manual is now quite finished, 

 there is nothing therefore to stop Taylor. Van Voorst publishes for 

 me. Give your bookseller a hint to order it to be sent as soon as 

 published.— Yours truly, Charles C. Babington. 

 How shall I send a copy to you ? 



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



Cork, Aug. 25, 1843. 



Dear Balfour, — Your letter and packet reached me two or three 

 days since, but I have not had time to answer it until now. The 

 supposed Hypericum cluhium is only H. maculatum. The Carex I 

 believe to be irrigua. The Hieracium I think umbellatum, and I am 

 much obliged for the Statice rariflora. I am glad that you have had 

 a pleasant party in the S.W., and seen so many plants. The meet- 

 ing is now concluded, and, although very small as to numbers, has 

 been the most successful in all other respects that I have known. 

 Our section has taken a much higher place than it ever did before. 

 Spiranthes gemmipara was shewn in a living state, and I have obtained 

 a specimen for my herbarium, besides examining it when fresh, I 

 go to-morrow to Clonakilty to gather Erica Mackaiana in a new 

 station, and then to Berehaven after the Spiranthes. Forbes, Lan- 

 kester, and I are together. The only public lectures have come 

 from Section D, viz., Owen on an extinct bird from New Zealand, 

 and Forbes on the Egean. Both very successful. To-day we have 

 had a capital aquatic party about the Cove of Cork. Winterbottom 

 goes with me, and we hope to spend a fortnight in the S.W., and 

 then I must go to Bath before my return home. You had better, 

 therefore, address me at Cambridge when you -write. I wish that you 

 had been here, as you would have made a valuable addition to our 

 party. — Believe me, truly yours in haste, Charles C. Babington. 



To Sir W. J. Hooker. 



St. John's College, Cambrtdgb, Dee. 3, 1844. 



My dear Sir, — It may be interesting to you to learn that I 

 possess a specimen of the true Helianthemum guttatum, identical with 

 the Jersey plant, gathered by Miss H. Townsend at Three Castle 

 Head, one of the south-western points of the county of Cork. It is 

 very curious that we should all have overlooked the difference be- 

 tween the Anglesea plant and the true H. guttatum until an acute 

 foreign botanist points it out to us. — Believe me, dear Sir, yours 

 truly, Charles C. Babington. 



