390 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1880 



puzzles me: especially the plate in "Bull. Bot. Fr." xviii. The 

 nucules are figured, and also described as so curious. I see that 

 you remark on this, although you do not quote the plate. Is that 

 intentional ? Mr. A. Bennett,* of 107, High Street, Croydon, has 

 sent me a plant from the Lizard, collected by Curnow, which may 

 be the connivens of your paper. Have you seen it 1 If you have 

 not seen his specimens, you ought to see them. — Yours very truly, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



I hope that you will have a few separate copies of the paper to 

 make up into a separate tract. 



To Henry Groves, Esq. 



April 7, 1880. 



Dear Sir, — (1) I have found a paper that it might be well for 

 you to see. Leonhardi in " Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden 

 Vereines in Briinn." Vol. ii. Prag. 1864. (2) Lychnothamnus first 

 in a book of Ruprecht, "Syrabolae ad historiam pi. Rossicarum." 

 On the second page marked 11 (although called 79 in the index) 

 published in 1845. He has much about Chara there. — Charles 

 C. Babington. 



To the same. 



Cambridge, April 19, 1880. 



My dear Sir,— Yon have probably heard from Mr. Bennett 

 that my ideas concerning the troublesome Chara are confirmed by 

 Nordstedt. He considers the plant to be " C. baltica forma leptaphylla 

 ad var. Liljebladi accedens." I thought it the variety Liljehladi. Of 

 course the " marine " character of the Baltic plant is of no conse- 

 quence ; that sea is so fresh, especially in its upper part, that many 

 plants which grow in fresh water with us, inhabit its water. I am 

 sorry that a knowledge of this plant has come to you so late. My 

 acquaintance with it was made as recently as last month. Look at 

 Braun and Rabenhorst No. 114. Is not that very like the cultivated 

 plant ?— Yours very truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To the same. 



April 26, 1880. 



Dear Sir, — Many thanks for specimens of Eiibi. I have 

 Leonhardi's paper bound up with other tracts. It is from " Ver- 

 handlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Briinn." Band IL 

 Prag. 1864. You will probably find this serial in the Botanical 

 Museum. The want of books at hand is a serious difficulty. Your 

 remarks concerning the nucules are interesting. You may have to 

 m3.ke an appendix to your paper. I hope that you are getting 

 a few separate copies taken. — Charles C. Babington. 



* He has sent what seems to be the C. hispida /3 Liljebladi of Braun from 

 Kynance Cove by Cumow. 



