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in minute critical botany without it. I did not know that any one 

 knew of A. leptodados except More, Newbould, and myself. It 

 seems quite certain to me that you will not succeed in getting any 

 publisher to undertake a new Botanical Journal ; for the risk of 

 loss is almost a certainty. The " Botanical Gazette " has taught us 

 that unfortunate fact. — Yours very truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To A. G. More, Esq. 



Cambridge, Feb. 13, 1860. 

 Dear More, — You must keep your friend more closely in hand, 

 or he will run quite away with you : his enthusiasm is of so high 

 an order. I cannot yet tell when the notice of "Bentham's Handbook" 

 will appear. Francis rarely sends me word, unless there is some 

 strong reason to do so. I have no doubt about the Tritica. I 

 fancy that the Scandinavian T. acutum (Fries) has got a name, but 

 am not sure. At any rate it does not now concern us, and / am 

 never in a hurry to give a name, if I can avoid it. In this case we 

 are not called upon to name the Friesian plant. I would not send 

 the Festuca (Broteri) to Parnell until you can get it in good 

 condition, and then send it fresh. He will be glad of unpublished 

 grasses next summer, as he thinks of re-editing his book. He lives 

 at 7, James' Place, Leith, Edinburgh. My "Flora of Cam- 

 bridgeshire " is about ready for the press, and will, as I hope, be 

 published in the spring. As I never expect it to pay its expenses, 

 I have put in much that many people may think unnecessary, and 

 left out talk which many of them would have liked. In short, I 

 have looked more to pleasing myself, than propitiating the public. 

 Newbould has already been " studying at Kew," and in the British 

 Museum ; and has not yet shewn any signs of ratting. What 

 longer time may do, of course I cannot say. You will now have 

 seen my paper upon Fumaria in the "Linnaean Journal," and 

 probably decided for yourself relative to the Isle of Wight species. 

 I have re-examined two of your plants, viz. : Alverstoke and Ei/de ; 

 and continue to think that they are F. confusa. Soften some of the 

 fruits-with-their-pedicels, and look at the "base." I am sorry to 

 have to add that I cannot send to you a specimen of Lejpigonum 

 marinum y3, for I have only one, and that fastened down in my 

 herbarium. I should advise your not printing anything about 

 Le/pigona at present. If I can make anything out you shall know. 

 I have long intended to work up the plants by Lindberg's Inaugural 

 Dissertation, of which probably there is not another copy in 

 England. Fries sent it to me. I hope to take this in hand very 

 soon, i.e., as soon as I can get the "Flora Cantab." quite ready for 

 printing, and your plants (which came two or three days since) 

 examined and disposed of. How shall I return them ? Is Mr. 

 Salway returning to the Isle at the end of this term, and shall I 

 ask him to take them — or send them direct from London myself ? 

 — Yours truly, Charles C. Babington. 



