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and Turnham Green. I think that the sap is a good character 

 when conjoined with a lot of other (although minute) differences. 

 In the Oenanthe the sap seems to have been the only marked 

 difference between the plants — not so here. I now feel sure that 

 our Lecoqii is that so-called on the continent, but a little doubt has 

 arisen about the Lamottei being the true plant. I hope in due 

 time to hear from Cr6pin on the subject. Helosciadium repens is 

 one of our most questionable species : but I suspect that you have 

 not got the true plant. Probably most of the so-called repens are 

 ocreatum. I have not got De Gall's book, and so cannot help you 

 relative to its contents. Indeed I know nothing about the book, 

 except its name. You have plenty of time, as the Linnaean does 

 not meet again until November 1. I do not think that there is 

 likely to be any material change in the sequence of the species in 

 the next edition of the " Manual." When that next edition will 

 be wanted I really cannot say : it may be some considerable time 

 as yet. There is no doubt that Bentham's book has slackened the 

 sale of the "Manual" slightly. I hardly know what floras to 

 recommend you to get, but certainly one should be Fries' " Novitiae 

 Florae Suecicae " and " Novitiae Florae Suecicae Mantissae " i., ii., 

 and III. I hope that you may be so fortunate as to get them. 

 Try if Pamplin has them in stock ; if not, order them of Williams 

 and Norgate. Have you got Nyman's " Sylloge " ? It is useful as 

 giving a tolerably complete list of the European flora, and the 

 countries in which each plant is believed to have been found. 

 Cosson and Germain is valuable, especially the Atlas de la Flore des 

 environs de Paris. Lloyd's book (ouest) is the last relative to 

 Brittany, and Van der Bosch's to Holland. I have lately got a lot 

 more interesting Eubi from Germany, — Wirtgen's Herb. Rub. 

 rhenan. ; it contains now 116 good specimens — I do not say species. 

 By the way a certain Philipp Jakob Miiller has issued a " Versuch " 

 (essay monographic) on the French and German Eubi (all in hard 

 German, and without specific characters in any form, only long 

 descriptions) in which he describes what he calls species from those 

 countries to the number of two hundred and thirty -six ! What is 

 our forty-two or forty-three to that ? or even our sixty odd, if we 

 name all the forms. I hear of a discovery in Essex, viz. : of 

 Lathyrus tuherosus in abundance near Ongar, where the farmers have 

 known it for sixty years. G. S. Gibson is on the scent, and will 

 hunt it out in time. — Yours truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To A. G. More, Esq. 



Gahbrtdob, Aug. 11, 1860. 



Dear More, — I omitted to notice that part of your letter which 

 relates to Lepigonvm. My idea is that the plants which you want 



