1887] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 413 



Mtjosotis rupestris in the Teesdale district. That seems to be a 

 preserve of yours : you have found so many interesting plants 

 there. I am glad that you found Pyrola secuncla which I have 

 recently seen here. What a nice plant it is. Most plants are over. 

 What most strikes me on the lower hillsides is the great prevalence 

 of Trientalis. It seems curious to me to find that here they call the 

 fruit of Vaccinium Vitis-idaea the Cranberry. What is the case with 

 you 1 Can the Cranberry fruit imported so largely from Russia be 

 this, and not the true Vaccinium oxycoccos ? My dear wife and 

 myself wish to send our joint kindest regards to you and your 

 family, to whom we hope that it has pleased G-od to give good 

 health, as I am thankful to say that He has done to us. — Believe me 

 to be, very truly yours, Charles C. Babington. 



To F. J. Hanbury, Esq. 



Braemar, Sept. 13, 1887. 



Dear Mr. Hanbury, — I am glad to receive your letter, and to 

 learn from it that you have both safely arrived home after your most 

 interesting, but rather rough and laborious, visit to the far north. 

 That it may have done you both good, and strengthened you for 

 the work of the coming winter, is our earnest wish ; a wish in 

 which my dear wife joins quite fully with me. We were very 

 sorry to miss you here, and by so very short a time, for we hardly 

 knew if you had departed when we arrived at our nice quarters. 

 We also missed the two Lintons, who had just left to go to Clova 

 ■on their way home. I have heard from one of them, but he does 

 not tell me if they found much. We have not had good weather 

 since we came, and so have not done much. The most interesting 

 plant which we have seen is Linnaea, of which we saw a large patch, 

 of course long past flowering. I am told that there are other spots 

 near, where it grows, but they are not made public for fear of the 

 dealers, who are so given to exterminate valuable plants. I am 

 glad to find Polypodium alpestre and Lastrea aemida rather abundant. 

 I suspect that last year I mistook the former for filix femina, and 

 the latter for dilatata. I believe that there are mistakes often made. 

 Amongst the former I found what may be the F. flexile, but of that 

 I am uncertain. And now to revert to your letter : I wish you 

 would send the printed list of seeds to Mr. Lynch, Botanic Garden, 

 Cambridge. I think that we should be much pleased to receive as 

 many of them as you can give to us. We formerly received a set 

 from Fries, but they have all vanished, partly because our former 

 curator did not pay sufficient attention to them, but chiefly because 

 our climate is very unfavourable to them. I am now quite sure 

 that as much care will be given to them as can be given. Both 

 Lynch and I shall be much interested in them. I think that most 

 of them had best be kept in pots, but Backhouse found that even so 



