422 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1888-89 



To T. R. Archer Briggs, Esq. 



6, Bbookside, Cambridge, Dee. 14, 1888. 

 Dear Mr. Briggs, — Your Trifolium pratense sylvestre is a very wild- 

 looking plant, and is, I presume, the plant intended by Synie. He 

 should have placed it as a, and the sativum as /3. My parvifloram 

 seemed to me to be only an accidental state, until I found that 

 Lange had figured it as a native plant in Scandinavia in the " Flora 

 Danica," 2782. His definition is, "Capitulis minoribus oblongo- 

 ovatis evidenter pedunculatis, fl. minoribus pedicillatis, calycis dente 

 longiore corollam aequante." I suppose it is another wild form of 

 T. pratense. Its heads and flowers are smaller than those of your 

 sylvestre. Its long calyx-tooth projects conspicuously from the 

 flowering head. My Plymouth specimen is labelled as from W. S. 

 Hore, 1839. I am sorry to hear that the Caldown Quarries station 

 is destroyed. If you can get me seeds of Linaria supina I shall be 

 glad to risk their becoming a " rather troublesome weed." 1 will 

 do what I can with the brambles when they come. I have got as 

 far as E. scaber in my Revision. It is No. 43 of identified plants 

 which are distinguishable. I do not say species ; they may or may 

 not be. So you see I have still much to do. It is very slow work, 

 not to say difficult. I could not attempt it if I had not my 500 — 

 600 continental forms, all authoritatively named. I have just 

 received about fifty more of most valuable specimens in Lindeberg, 

 "Herb. Rub. Scandinaviae," fasc. 1 and 2. — Yours very truly, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



To Alfred Fryer, Esq. 



Cambridge, March 5, 1889. 

 Dear Mr, Fryer, — I have just laid my hands upon an old letter 

 (April 3, 1867), which recalls to my memory an interesting state- 

 ment, if authentic, that is, if the right plant was found ; but also 

 interesting if anything fairly like it grows there. I am in it 

 informed that the Rev. W. F. Eaton found in the Ouse, between 

 Huntingdon and St. Ives, Ntiphar pumila in 1866, flowering towards 

 the end of June or the beginning of July. " It was abundant in some 

 parts of the river." Do you know anything about this ? Of course I 

 presume the place is in Hunts. — Yours truly, Charles C. Babington. 



To the Rev. W. Hunt Painter, Stirchley Eectm-y, Shifnal. 



5, Brookside, Cambridge, March 22, 1889. 

 Dear Sir, — I am much pleased to learn that you are preparing a 

 *' Flora of Derbyshire," and am happy to add my name to the list 

 of subscribers. If I can in any way help you I shall be always 

 ready to do so ; so do not scruple to ask me. It is very pleasing to 

 see the spirit in which you are undertaking it, and I am quite sure 

 that God's favour will be given to you in doing it. — Yours truly, 

 Charles C. Babington. 



