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To the same. 



Cambridge, April 17, 1860. 



Dear More, has sent me the New Brighton plant as Viola 



sabulosa. It is the true V. Curtisii (a form of V. lutea). What I 

 have from Portmarnock is exceedingly like a state of V. tricolor. 

 Whether it is annual or perennial I am unable to say. It seems to 

 have a woody tap-root. I have lately written oblongus to your 

 Kilmacduagh Potamogeton, but retain lanceolatus to Carroll's plant 

 from Recess, Connemara, and Dr. Moore's Killarney ; also an 

 Antrim plant of his ; also a plant of my own from the Gap of 

 Dunloe, Killarney. There is a plant in the swift water at Old 

 Weir Bridge, Killarney, which may also be P. lanceolatus, but I 

 could not get fruit. From whence did the Aran people in the 

 " ould time " get Allium Babingtonii 1 I do not doubt their culti- 

 vating it in a way, and eating it also, but think that they may have 

 found it native. I certainly think that your Euphrasia is the same 

 as mine from Aran. It comes very near to Salisburgensis, although 

 the true continental plant has even more deeply jagged leaves than 

 this. I am not inclined to separate the plant into segregate species. 

 I hope that it will return safe to you. — Yours truly, Charles C. 

 Babington. 



To the same. 



Cambkidge, May 4, 1860. 



Dear More, — I think that I told you that sent me the 



violet of New Brighton, Cheshire, as the F. sahilosa (Bor.), 

 V. Curtisii (Mark.) — not (Forst.) — in all which respects he is wrong. 

 The plant is V. Cicrtisii (Fovst.). V. Symei is to me still a nonentity. 

 I am glad that you say it is V. tricolor. Can it be identified with 

 any of the French plants ? I believe that Smith's Potamogeton 

 lanceolatus is not P. nitens. As to my leek having been taken to 

 Ireland by the "ould people," I have little to say except I doubt. 

 If they had taken it we should find it more general in the country 

 than it is believed to be. For in a moist climate it keeps a firm 

 hold wherever it is introduced. I think that you might as well 

 cause them to have brought the peculiar heaths as garden flowers 

 together with London Pride. Do not believe all that the Galway 

 people tell you about the history of the Irish. Old they are, and 

 have an ancient history, but not quite what they have been taught 

 to fancy. I do not like your new word Ornither. — Yours truly, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



To the same. 



Cambridge, May 5, 1860. 



Dear More, — I see that I have not yet sent to you the 

 information that you required. Stellaria Boreana : — I suppose 

 that your plant from St. Helen's Spit, May 1858, is this plant. 



