1881] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 395 



To the same. 



Cambridgb, June 28, 1881. 



My dear Sir, — I am greatly obliged to you for the beautiful 

 specimens of Chara haltica. They are just the same as I have 

 received before from Mr. Bennett, and named baltica. It is very 

 satisfactory to have one's opinion confirmed in this way. I presume 

 that you want my notes on the other plants sent : is it not so 1 If 

 so, I will send them to you as soon as ever I can. — Yours very truly, 

 €harles C. Babington. 



To J. E. Bagnall, Esq. 



Cambridge, July 7, 1881. 



Dear Sir, — I thank you greatly. I have examined the bramble, 

 and find the filaments and young anthers white, the old anthers 

 fuscous. The stamens at first about equalling the pale green styles, 

 ultimately exceeding them. All this leads me to suspect that our 

 plant may not really be hemistemon, but appendiculatus of Genevier's 

 Monograph. I am not at this time able to examine his specimens 

 of the latter. Does this accord with your observations 1 1 was 

 unable to examine the specimens until this morning, so they may 

 have changed colour in the tin. You are working well at the 

 Warwickshire plants. I wish that some one, having the requisite 

 leisure, would take up the flora of that county. — Believe me to be, 

 very truly yours, Charles C. Babington. 



To J. T. T. Boswell-Syme, Esq. 



Cambridge, Juli/ 18, 1881. 



Dear Boswell, — Do you know how I can obtain a rooted offset 

 of the original Caltha radicans of Forster 1 We had it here until our 

 Oarden was moved, and then we lost it. The same happened at 

 Oxford through alterations in the Garden. I have tried several 

 other places without success. I especially want the continuation 

 of the original plant of Don and Dickson, which was published by 

 Forster : not a supposed similar plant. All the old roots in gardens 

 came from that original plant, and the recovery of that actual plant 

 is important. You may perhaps know something of its existence 

 somewhere now, and will be doing me a great favour by putting me 

 in the way of regaining it for our Garden. I gathered the remark- 

 able Cineraria found by Davies, at Holyhead last autumn, and we 

 have it now in cultivation. When flowering in a wild state it is 

 often three feet high, remarkably leafy, with magnificent foliage. 

 I have no doubt that it is the Senecio spathulifolius (D.C.) which we 

 have also in cultivation here. I am glad to say that it grows in a 

 very difficult place to find, and when found, to get at, and so we 



