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think that Borrer's carpinifolius (see E, B. S.) is rhamnifolkis, and 

 that our Maassii, including Muenteri, is nemoralis. Grahowskii is 

 different. Also that Lees' lentiginosus is distinct. We also seem to 

 have bifrons from Norfolk. This will do for once : if I go on at 

 the same rate, we shall have enough forms, I fear, to trouble all 

 rubologists. I have not got further yet. — Yours truly Charles C. 

 Babington. 



To J. E. Bagnall, Esq. 



5, Bkookside, Cambridge, July 21, 1888. 



Dear Mr. Bagnall, — I have made a note of what you say about 

 Hystrix and rosaceus. It is very difficult to lay down any distinction 

 between them. Hystrix seems to be an exceedingly rare plant in 

 Germany, and lost in Weihe's station at Beek. Focke found one 

 plant of what he thought might be the same near Aachen, but he 

 seems manifestly very doubtful about the plant as a distinct species. 

 He says that he found one solitary plant of what may be a shade 

 form near Spa — the nihescens {1) of Lejeune. In short, he seems to 

 know nothing really about the plant, and I suppose (for he does not 

 say) that his description is taken from that. It is not in Genevier's 

 book. In the " Herb. Gen." I find its name doubtfully given to a 

 plant from the Pyrenees, which he places with a specimen of Hystrix 

 from Bloxam. He is probably correct in that determination, but 

 they may or may not be the plant of Weihe, of which neither he 

 nor Focke nor I have seen any specimen. There is no proof that 

 Focke means the same plant as Bloxam and Genevier. I must 

 therefore hold to my opinion at present. R. rosaceus must be the 

 same, as it stands first in the original book (Bluff and Fingerhuth 

 "Comp. Fl. Germ."). I should like to get out a new "Eubi," but 

 it will take much time. I have extensive notes towards one. If 

 you had fully 500 named forms of continental Ruhi to work with, 

 you would see the advantage and also the disadvantage under which 

 I lie in the preparation of such a book. The advantages are very 

 great, but they cause much time to be requisite, and I get on very 

 slowly, having many other things to attend to. I am glad to 

 learn that Lord de Tabley goes on with Botany. He will find the 

 brambles more prickly the more he puts his hand amongst them. 

 If you are communicating with him, give my compliments to him, 

 and say how glad I should be to see him here. I did not know that 

 his father was dead. — Yours very truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To T. E. Archer Briggs, Esq, 



Cambridge, Aug. 13, 1888. 



Dear Mr. Briggs, — I have just received a " paper apart " from 

 Gelert entitled, " Les Rubus de Danemark et de Slesvig " which con- 

 tains a French text of much of the " Denmarks og Slesvigs Rubi " 

 which has been of so little use to me from its Danish language. 1 see 



