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send my Braemar list, which if not considered well fitted for the 

 "Scottish Naturalist," as I fear may be the case, I may ask you 

 kindly to return to me. Should it be admitted, I suppose that I 

 may have fifty separate copies to give away to botanical friends. — 

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



To Henry Groves, Esq. 



Cambridge, Nov. 4, 1890. 



Dear Mr. Groves, — Many thanks for the information concerning 

 the Chippenham Fen Cham. I now send specimens, not to be returned, 

 of Charae from Braemar. They grew at about 1200 feet above the 

 sea, or a little more. The barren one from the " Queen's Drive " 

 was abundant in a deep pool at the higher elevation. I looked 

 carefully for fruit, but could find none. The other was in running 

 water near the village. Please let me have the names. — Yours very 

 truly, Charles C. Babington. 



I do not know what to say about the Lycopodiums. I have a 

 plant from several places. Baker has named several coinplanatmn. 

 A bit from Skye seems correct as Baker thought ; the others puzzle 

 me greatly. 



To Professor J. W. H. Trail. 



0, Brookside, Cambridge, Nov. 6, 1890. 

 Dear Sir, — I hope that you will succeed in making the " Scottish 

 Naturalist " the organ of the Scottish Natural History Societies and 

 Field Clubs. It is a very great convenience to have the scattered 

 papers collected into one journal, for we at a distance have very 

 little chance of seeing the publications of local societies. It would be 

 much for the benefit of the authors to have these papers so collected 

 together, and easy of reference. I was intending to write to know 

 if you would like to have a list of the plants seen by me in the 

 lower country of Braemar during the last four or five autumns. 

 They amount to about 360 species, and nearly all of them would 

 occupy not more than one line of printing. I think that such a 

 separation of the species is more convenient in many ways than 

 lumping the species of a genus together, as is often done. I am 

 not aware that the "low" growing plants of a mountain valley 

 have ever been carefully recorded, and such a list seems of much 

 interest to me. — Yours faithfully, Charles C. Babington. 



To Henry Groves, Esq, 



Cambridge, Dee. 24, 1890. 

 Dear Mr. Groves, — I think you may fail to see a paper by M, Hy 

 on Characeae in the " Bulletin Soc. Botan. de France," xxxvii. p. xlvi., 

 just published. I think it may pay you to find this publication 

 and read it. It extends to several pages, and notices the same 

 plants as ours. — Believe me, with all the best wishes for the season, 

 yours ever, Charles C. Babington. 



