1890] BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 429 



Cornford Wood and Dartmoor (July 28, 1879). I then apparently 

 gave it no name. I agree with Bagnall in placing it near (or into) 

 B. villicaulis, but Bloxam said, "one of the Bellardiani." I agree 

 with Bagnall. Do you know anything of it ? I am very much 

 obliged to you for so kindly sending me the specimen from Old 

 Park, Warwick. It is very like amplificatus. Have I not the same 

 plant from you as mucronatus ("near Carkeel, July 31, I860")? The 

 Old Park plant seems very like amphkhlorus of Genevier, and that I 

 cannot distinguish from amplificatus. I have not seen Linton's plant 

 ■("Journal of Botany," 1888, 329), but incline to place 



To the Rev. E. S. Marshall. 



Cambridge, March 14, 1890. 



Dear Mr. Marshall, — On the annexed page I have made a few 

 notes upon the exceedingly interesting packet of specimens which you 

 have so kindly sent to me. I am very sorry for the delay, but I have 

 been very much occupied. I am sorry that I cannot give any valuable 

 opinion upon the Arctia. The specimens are hardly complete 

 enough, and I do not venture to name them. I presume that 

 Hanbury has seen the Hieracia. I quite trust him now for names 

 of them. I am looking for your paper on Epilohia and Festuca hetero- 

 ^hylla. I think that you are rather hard upon Nyman in your 

 former letter. He had all Europe to attend to, and so must have 

 made many mistakes. The mistake some of our people make is in 

 accepting his determination as of far too much authority. We 

 must look into every point ourselves before we adopt his views in 

 our Flora. They are most valuable to us, as giving us new ideas 

 to work upon. Your flowerless Bub. villicaulis seems to me to 

 approach far more nearly to our carpinifolius. R. rhamnifolius from 

 Cranbrook is not satisfactory. I think it is allied to affinis. The 

 dentition of the leaves is not what I expect. These plants are very 

 difficult. I have several things under affinis which can hardly belong 

 there. To which section should affinis go ? To Rhamnifolii I think, 

 R. Koehleri from Hangley is surely not correctly named. I never 

 saw Koehleri with such a stem. It is very near to R. cerinostylus 

 (Miill.), of which I have an authentic specimen, but not the descrip- 

 tion before me. Is not the other without a name the same 1 or do 

 they do to hirtus ? — Believe me to be, yours truly, Charles C. 

 Babington. 



Cochlearias. I am much interested by these. I wish you would work 

 out their characters. 



Viola. Is not the plant from soil of the Lizard — v. cornuta (L.)? 



Polygonum from Worplesdon is apparently minus. 



Mentha. Witley. Closely approaches aquatiea. Is it a hybrid ? 



Luzula. What is your evidence of the hybridity of L. Borreri 1 I think 

 it is so, but have had no proof. 



Ranunculus Baudotii, An interesting stem without floating leaves 

 apparently. 



