424 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1889 



Common Wood, Aug. 19, 1875," which Bloxam thought erroneously, 

 might be plinthosti/lus. I do not know what to do with these, as I 

 have not been able to find a name for them in Focke or Genevier. 

 They can hardly be the same species as your ramosus, although the 

 form seems present with you. What do you now say to the Egg 

 Buckland plant ? I fear that we shall have to give this a new name, 

 much to my sorrow. But if so, how can we find an unused one ? 

 It does seem to approach imbricatus. I shall be glad to learn your 

 present views upon this plant. It has brought me to a stand in my 

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



To the Rev. Edward S. Marshall, The Mount, Witley, Godalming. 



Cambridge, Nov. 16, 1889. 



Dear Mr. Marshall, — I am very much pleased by receiving your 

 letter. I am very ignorant about these hybrid Epilobia, and glad that 

 you have taken them in hand. It is very interesting to determine 

 so rare, and for some time doubtful, a plant as Saxifraga caespitosa. 

 I have never seen more than a little scrap or two of it. You and 

 Hanbury are doing admirable work. I am obliged to give up the 

 attempt at much hill work, for I cannot do it. I seem to have done 

 nearly all my out-of-door work, but am thankful to say that I can 

 do much indoor work, and am getting on slowly with a careful 

 revision of the Bubi. Difficult and very slow work indeed ! 

 Hanbury's first number is beautiful. I suppose that there will be 

 another soon. I am rejoiced about the Betula intermedia. Its place 

 is rather beyond my reach now, or I should have carefully hunted 

 the hill side near the fall, on the way to Loch Cander. I looked at 

 it from a distance, but felt that I had not strength to get there and 

 hack. It should really be looked up well. Is it the remnant of a 

 glacial wood, of which only a few trees have survived ? But I think 

 there ought to be more. In Iceland it formed an extensive forest 

 of trees about eight to ten feet high. Can you keep Cerastium 

 ardicum alive ? We have almost failed, if not quite. I suspect that 

 it is not uncommon on the high hills. — Believe me to be, very truly 

 yours, Charles C. Babington. 



To T. R. Archer Briggs, Esq. 



Cambridge, Xov. 18, 1889. 



Dear Mr. Briggs, — I am very much obliged to you for the notes 

 on the midland and western Rxihus ramosus. Have you any idea if 

 Focke gave any name to the latter ? I want very much to find one. 

 (Your notes are most valuable to me). But I fear that they are 

 both unknown to him in Germany. I cannot lay my hands on the 

 plinthostylus of Blox. which you sent formerly, and I suspected 



