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last page. But I will look more into the matter, as soon as I can. 

 Just now I cannot. Some one has borrowed my copy of the 

 " Tourist's Flora," and not returned it. Is it out of print, as I am 

 told, or can I anyhow obtain another copy ? Please tell me where 

 to apply for one. — Yours very truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To Alfred Fryer, Esq. 



Cambridge, Aug. 14, 1884. 



My dear Sir, — I think that your plant is Potamogeton flahellatus, 

 but the leaves are not very decided, and the semi-ripe fruit some- 

 what difl&cult of determination. The early leaves settled the point 

 in my opinion. I have not seen the fruit of P. decipiens. I believe 

 it will be found that many species produce hard tubers in the 

 autumn, from which the next year plants grow. This accounts for 

 the rarity of the fruit of many of them. I am leaving home in a 

 few days and hope to return at the end of September quite strong 

 again. I cannot yet walk far, as my ankles are weak. — Yours very 

 truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To W. Mathews, Esq. 



Cambridoe, Oct., 1884. 



Dear Mathews, — I believe Herniaria glabra is nearly (if not 

 always) annual with us, and ciliata decidedly perennial. What 

 annua may be in warmer country I cannot say, but suspect that it 

 is usually confounded with ciliata. I must confess that the 

 characters are not very well defined, but the plants when groAving 

 side by side are wonderfully different. I am sorry that I have not 

 a bit of true glabra to send. I very much wish that I could find 

 some well-definable characters for the plants. It is probable that 

 Syme has not seen any true glah-a from Guernsey. I think that I 

 have. Probably only ciliata is found at the Lizard. Is not glabra a 

 field plant, not liking such places as ciliata inhabits ? I do not 

 remember anything about its situation in Guernsey, but where I 

 have seen it in England (if it is not Cornish) it grew upon broken 

 ground, such as the weeds of agriculture affect. I hope that Mr. 

 Towndrow has again found the Juncus tenuis. — Yours very truly, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



To James Backhouse, Esq. 



Cambridge, Oct. 3, 1884. 



Dear friend, — I have very carefully examined your specimens of 

 Cineraria capitata with the following result. Gin. cajntata, (Wahl.) = 

 Senecio aurantiacus y3 of Eeichenb. (" Iconographia," fig. 243 and 244). 



