1879] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 387 



To Alfred Fryer, Esq. 



5, BuooKsiDB, Cambridge, July 9, 1879. 



My dear Sir, — I am very glad to learn that my determination 

 of the Oenanthe is correct. I did not think that there was anything 

 else which it could be. Your discovery is very interesting, as I 

 have never again seen it since I found a specimen in 1833. I shall 

 be very glad indeed to receive a good specimen (as you promise me) 

 at the due time. The Carices sent are muricata and divulsa. Can I 

 have made a mistake, and entered pahidosa in mistake for riparia ? 

 I have no specimen, and will try and give a note at the end of this 

 letter of the probable place where I gathered it. It may be that 

 you have not got it : the localities in my original notes for the 

 " Cambridge Flora " rather favour that view. I cannot send you a 

 bit of it, and we have hitherto failed to keep such plants in the 

 Botanic Garden for any length of time. I hope that we shall 

 make another attempt when matters are arranged there. Always 

 glad to help you. The " Cambridge Flora " does not sell, and so I. 

 see little probability of a new edition. I wish I did. — Yours very 

 truly, Charles C. Babington. 



I cannot find the plant. 



To the Rev. W. H. Purchas. 



5, Brookside, Cambridge, Juli/ 31, 1879. 



My dear Sir, — I am sorry that I have allowed your letter to 

 remain so long unanswered. I thank God that we have escaped 

 suffering from the very remarkable season that there has been. It 

 has been very unfavourable to all out-of-door work, as the land would 

 hardly admit of walking off the roads and paths — if even there. I 

 am much obliged for the notes of the Violas included by me under 

 sylvatica. I knew nothing of your son having obtained a Scholarship 

 at St. Catharine's, but am glad of it. When he comes we shall be 

 pleased to pay him any attention that we can. Would he like to 

 mix with our more " serious " men, such as take an interest in the 

 C. M. S., and such like work ? We know many such. I do not 

 think that there is much danger here if a man is introduced to the 

 proper set. You would do well to put the ends of the stems of the 

 Bubus Purchasii into the ground in the autumn, so that they may 

 root. If left alone there — still remaining attached to the parent 

 plant — they will form nice plants next year. Seeds would also 

 grow ; but they require four years to come to perfection, although 

 they vegetate at once. If you succeed in raising young plants, I 

 should much like to have one. Believe me to be, with our united 

 kind regards to Mrs. Purchas and yourself, yours very truly, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



Has anybody taken up the " Herefordshire Flora " ? 



