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or at least from the European continent, and therefore may have 

 come from some very distant spot. I presume, as you say nothing 

 on the subject, that you have not succeeded in finding out the place 

 from which the clover-seed was obtained. That seems to be our 

 only chance of tracing the Cichormm to its country. Would it not 

 be well to transplant a few of the plants into your garden, and so 

 try to obtain seeds to continue the species with us ? If you learn 

 anything about it, I shall be much obliged by your informing me of 

 it. I have not done much this summer, except making lists of 

 plants for the projected "Flora of Cambridgeshire." Arctium 

 seems to include more British species than we have usually sup- 

 posed. We appear to have the 



(1) ^. majus = L. officinale {Reich. Icon.) 

 {2) A. tomentoswn = A. Bardana (Sm. E.B.) 



(3) A. intermedium (Lange and Reich. Icon. xv. 812.) 



(4) A. minus = A. Lappa {Sm. E.B.) — 



and there may possibly be one or perhaps two others which do 

 not well fall into either of the above. The shape and proportion 

 of the florets afford good characters I think. I have determined 

 that the Fotamogeton that grows abundantly in the canal near Bath 

 is P. flahellatus ; have found the same species near Denver in 

 Norfolk, and Newbould gathered it lately near Hedon in York- 

 shire. — Believe me to be, very truly yours, Charles C. Babington. 



To the same. 



St. John's College, Cambrtdge, Bee. 31, 1853. 



My dear Sir, — I think that you will like to learn that the station 

 of the Alchemilla conjuncta (Bab.) is quite sufficiently wild. It is on 

 the lower slope of one of the most rugged mountains near the head 

 of the Glen of Clova — certainly never was or could have been a 

 garden. This is my idea of the spot described to me by Mr. Black, 

 and of which {i.e. the mountain) I have a pretty clear recollection. 

 No doubt Don may have planted it, but that I, for one, do not think. 

 Where could he have got the roots ? All the Botanic Gardens know 

 it as having been originally received from him. It grows at a similar 

 elevation, namely, about half-way up the mountain in the Faroe 

 Isles, and is known in no other country. I have no doubt that mv 

 friend Mr. Tyacke, of Chichester, gathered it in Arran, for the 

 specimen that he gave to me is it, and it may be quite local there. 

 I think that our friend Arnott is rather too hard upon Don. In my 

 opinion he made mistakes, but I do not think that he intended to 

 cheat. The Diervilla does not grow upon "the site of an old garden," 

 as I understand its station, but in an extensive range of plantations 

 made somewhere about eighty years since in a wild district, although 

 within a mile or so of a gentleman's residence. I think that Mr. 

 Black might well think the plant wild (it was Lindley who declared 

 it a native), for he probably knew nothing of the house. I do not 



