1860] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 345 



To A. G. More, Esq. 



Cambridge, July 14, 1860. 



Dear More, — I thank you for the copy of your "Natural 

 History of the Isle of Wight." I have looked at it in many parts, 

 and am much pleased. It will probably be of much use to those 

 who wish to find plants (especially) and animals in the island. It 

 must indeed have been a laborious undertaking for you. I do not 

 really know what to say about the pseudo Festuca Broteri. As soon 

 as you have made up your mind on the subject, I should advise your 

 giving your paper to the Linnaean Society, for publication in its 

 Journal. We want a few papers on British plants there, and yours 

 will probably be just the thing. Certainly I am not at present 

 inclined to think it a form of Myurus, for the plants seem very 

 different. I see "that you do not allow it to have any relationship 

 to F. uniglumis, although so very much like it in habit. In a few 

 days I hope to look carefully at the plant, and if I find anything 

 out, or form any reasonable opinion, as I hardly expect, I will 

 inform you of it. I wish that you could have been at Oxford : you 

 would have liked the Meeting, and been especially astonished to 

 hear Newbould attempt a speech in the section. He did not 

 exactly break down, but only got out two sentences. I tell him 

 that as he has now made a beginning he must go on. He says that 

 he won't. So you should congratulate him, and tell him that he 

 ought. I hope that Helianthemum jpolifolium may prove to be a 

 true discovery in your island. Newbould and I saw lots of Papa-ver 

 LamoUei at Oxford, and Turnham Green. Yesterday I found 

 P. Lecoqii near Ely. I really think that we must accept these as 

 distinct species. The sap seems conclusive of a constitutional 

 difference between them. What think you ? — Yours truly, Charles 

 C. Babington. 



To the same. 



Cambridge, Aug. 10, 1860. 



Dear More, — I do not wonder at your having not been out 

 much lately. The season has been most unfavourable for out-of- 

 door work. But I am really very sorry to find that you state your 

 health as the cause. Lindley (or Editor) gave a favourable notice 

 of your " Guide " in the " Gardeners' Chronicle " of August 4. He 

 remarks, which had escaped me, that you omit Arum italicum. I 

 agree with him in believing that it is "perfectly distinct from 

 A. maculatum, and certainly grows at Steephill." I believe that the 

 pale-sapped Poppy is the more common plant in the country — at 

 least, such is the result of the knowledge that we as yet possess. 

 I think it quite distinct from the yellow-juiced one, Lecoqii. 

 The latter grows on chalk, chalk-gravel, and peat, in this county. 

 The P. LamoUei lives upon sand with us, and on wall-tops at Oxf oid 



