1846] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 301 



To the same. 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, Dec. 23, 1846. 

 My dear Sir, — I am sorry to say that engagements will lead me 

 from home in exactly the opposite direction from Henfield during 

 the time that I can well afford to spend from home this winter. If 

 you look at the list in Fries' "Summa," I believe that you will find that 

 he places the name of Atriplex deltdidea as the species, and Drejer's 

 name as the variety. I assure you that I have studied the " Summa" 

 most carefully, examining my specimens by the observations con- 

 tained in it. It took me nearly a fortnight to do so. I certainly 

 consider the inflorescence of tables 447 and 448 of " English Botany" 

 quite different. In 447 it is determinate, the terminal bud pro- 

 ducing a flower ; in 448 it is indeterminate, the terminal bud con- 

 tinuing the growing shoot, and only the lateral ones producing 

 flowers. These are the two primary types of inflorescence to which 

 ^11 the modifications may be reduced. I thought I had given you 

 Scirpus uniglumis from the island of Lewis (Barvas), but if not, will 

 endeavour to find a specimen, but much fear that they are all gone. 

 I have no duplicates of Linaria supvna. Mr. Keys only sent me 

 enough to determine the plant, and supply my own herbarium. You 

 will ultimately get some of the Iceland plants, but they are not yet 

 ready for distribution, and I have not had time to determine nearly 

 all of them, being otherwise occupied. With all the compliments 

 of the season to Mrs. Borrer, yourself and family, believe me, yours 

 very truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To the same. 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, Dec. 31, 1846. 

 My dear Sir, — I write to tell you of a point that has just 

 occurred to me concerning Atriplex rosea. Fries in his new work 

 (" Summa Veg. Scandinaviae," p. 201), states that a sijecimen of my 

 A. rosea, which I sent to him, is his and Meyer's A. crassifolia (an 

 excellent name for our plant) ; and I now find that I have not a single 

 specimen corresponding with his A. rosea from Sweden, which is also 

 the plant of Koch. In the true A. rosea the lower leaves are rhomboi- 

 dal ovate, the upper ones ovate ; in our rosea they are much more like 

 those of patula and angustifolia, being nearly always furnished with 

 a lateral lobe on each side, so as to be triangular ovate. This form 

 is found even in the uppermost in nearly all cases. Not so in true 

 A. rosea, which has no lobed but ovate upper leaves. In mode of 

 inflorescence, and want of the dense spike of male flowers of laciniata, 

 our and the Swedish plants agree (see Fries "Nov. Mant.," iii., 163). 

 Have you the true A. rosea (Fries' plant), native of Britain ? I 

 suppose that I must turn out the name rosea, and take that of 

 ■crassifolia for our plant. Is that your opinion ? I hope that you 

 received a letter from me recently. — Yours very truly, Charles C. 

 Babington. 



