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may hope that it will escape the extirpating hands of cultivators. 

 I also saw last summer the Cotoneaster still remaining in the clefts 

 of the rock at the Orme's Head. But it is in great danger, as every 

 bit that can be found is immediately extracted, if possible, from 

 between the rocks. We have it very hot here. I hope you bear it 

 well. — Yours very truly, Charles C. Babington. 



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



Cambridge, Juli/ 27, 1881. 



Dear Boswell, — Your very welcome tin has just arrived, and I 

 have placed the contents in Lynch's hands at our Garden. This very 

 morning I took there a root of the original Caltha radicmis, sent by 

 Mr. Moore, of the Glasnevin Gardens, where it has certainly been 

 ten years (how many more no one knows) in cultivation. There is 

 every reason to suppose, therefore, that his plant, like yours, is from 

 the original root of Forster. Dickson was the original discoverer, 

 but he gives no locality. I have no reason to doubt G. Don's 

 correctness in this case — he lived close to the place. I think also 

 that Mr. Graham, of Rescobie, has found the true place in the same 

 immediate neighbourhood, although the original ditch is now cleaned 

 out and altered. The roots of Salix Grahami in its two forms are 

 very acceptable and valuable additions to our collection in the 

 Garden, as also is Hieracium Dewari. Many thanks for the infor- 

 mation about the supposed Potamogeton lanceolatus from Orkney. A 

 proved negative is very valuable. I think that we are quite allowed 

 to correct the orthography of a name when it is clearly Avrong ; nor 

 are we bound by the gender of the name as used by Linnaeus. 

 Certainly Knautia arvensis (Linn.) would be quite wrong, as he 

 never used that name, but Scahiosa arvensis. I only got leaves of 

 Senecio spathziUfoUus myself, for it was long out of flower. My fine 

 flowering specimens are from Mr. Griffith of Bangor. I wish I had 

 a bit to give to you. — Yours very truly, Charles C. Babington. 



I will send you a seedling from our Garden, to which I took seeds. 



To Henry Groves, Esq. 



Cambridge, Nov. 2, 1881. 



My dear Sir, — ;I send CJiara contraria from Frensham, — all that I 

 have unfastened down ; they are duplicates therefore. Can you send 

 me a bit of the same plant from Wicken, and also Nitella tenuissiniw 

 from there ? I am glad to learn that we are to have a new paper 

 from you soon. I hope that I have not made any gross mistakes in 

 the " Manual." I took much care, but was driven into a corner at 

 last, so that contraria only got in the " revise," and the station not 

 till even after that. I did as well as I could, and hope that I have 

 succeeded. I am glad that you had a specimen to send to Dr. 

 Boswell. — Yours truly, Charles C. Babington. 



