1860] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 337 



To the same. 



Cambridge, Feb. 16, 1860. 



Dear More, — I am glad to learn that you have so satisfactorily 

 determined the Festuca Broteri* You ask me if you ought to write 

 a paper about it now. I should say, not till the plant has been 

 again seen, and in a better state : then a short notice of it would be 

 well for the Linnaean. I do not think that any one will anticipate 

 you through such delay, as you and Bromfield have both called the 

 plant a variety, a most safe way of keeping it out of notice. You 

 will be able to give a far more satisfactory account of it after it has 

 flowered next summer than you can do now. The fruits of Fumarias 

 are so usually crushed and spoiled in herbaria that I am sorry to 

 say that I have none that I can send to you. The few that I have 

 are fastened down in my herbarium. Perhaps these rough and 

 exaggerated outlines may give you some idea of them. You ask 

 me about labels for the herbarium at Ryde. Why have them in 

 Latin 1 — -is it not rather pedantic when they Avill be read only by 

 English people? "Herb., Bromfield; Pian. repens (Linn.)] Ryde, 

 Isle of Wight ; date ; collected by Dr. Bromfield, and given to the 

 Ryde Philosophical Society by Miss Bromfield." " Herb., Bromfield; 

 collected by A. G. More; given by A. G. More." The size should not 

 be larger than will allow of the requisite information being written 

 upon it. I do not know who wrote the review of Darwin — and if I 

 did, I probably should not be in a position to tell you. I have no 

 reason to think that it could be Hort : indeed, strong cause to think 

 it was not. You can take the " Cybele " in hand if you like. Of 

 course you know De Candolle's "Botanical Geography." Le Coq 

 has a great work (ten octavo vols.) of a somewhat similar kind to 

 H. C. Watson's on the plants of Europe. I fear that you will hardly 

 see that. If you review the "Cybele," I shall venture to add to the 

 article anything that may seem desirable to me. "Cambridge 

 Flora " is gone to press — think of that ! — Yours truly, Charles 

 C. Babington. 



To the same, 



Cambridge, March, 1860. 

 Dear More, — I suppose that Newbould will continue in London 

 for some time. As he had to leave us, he could not do better than 

 betake himself to London until his matters are settled. How lone 

 that may take, he seems to have no idea ; nor has he let me much 

 into the secret of how they stand, and therefore, of course, I did not 

 ask him. If he goes to study at Kew, it is my belief that he will be 

 let quite alone, and that no one will discuss matters with him, but 

 afi'ord him all the facilities that he may want. He complains that 

 in London he has no one to contradict him, and oppose his opinions. 



* F. ambigua Le Gall, at first thought to be F. (or Vulpia) Broteri (Joum 

 Linn. Soc. v., 186i, p. 189). 



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