444 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [184»- 



St. John's College, Cambeidge, March 1, 1848. 



Dear Balfour, — I think that your plant from Duddingstone Loch 

 is Anacharis Alsimistrum, but am fearful of saying definitely what it 

 is, as A. Nuttallii is so greatly like it. Have you a dried specimen 

 to send 1 Is there much of it, and no probable chance of its having 

 been placed there 1 Have not exotics been sown there formerly ? 

 .... March 18. Your account of the locality of the Anacharis is 

 satisfactory. I have very little doubt of its identity with A. Alsin- 

 astrum, and shall be glad to receive a packet of it (in a tin) this 

 spring. Dr. Johnston has just reminded me of his having sent a 

 plant to me for examination (and return), which I could not deter- 

 mine, and which now he and I believe to have been A. Alsinadrum. 

 It was found in Berwickshire, I believe. I have written to him 

 again concerning it. I am glad that you have sent some botanical 

 papers to Taylor. You should write some yourself. I think that 

 Henfrey's reports are a valuable acquisition to the "A. N. H." I 

 think that I have made out the probable presence of another Rumex 

 in Britain, allied to E. palustris (Sm.), which is the E. Steinii of Koch,. 

 I mean the E. palustris of Koch. See what you have, and more 

 especially look to the base of the root leaves. I shall perhaps send 

 a paper upon this matter to the Society during the spring. I shall 

 also have a Supplement, No. 2, to the Eubi. — Yours very truly,. 

 Charles C. Babington. 



Copy of the translation of letters written miginally in Latin to Elias 

 Fries, Professor of Botany in the University of Upsala, Sweden. 



Dear Sir, — After much delay I have had the high honour and 

 great satisfaction of receiving your letter from Upsala, October, 1842, 

 and take the earliest opportunity that my engagements allow, to 

 reply to it. I have the satisfaction of stating that I have just 

 forwarded to the care of Mr. Sonder, of Hamburgh (who kindly 

 undertakes to forward them safely), a few specimens for your 

 Herbarium, amongst which the G. Borreri will be found. I am 

 grieved that it is not in my power to send a greater number of the 

 plants for which you have more particularly applied, but trust to 

 be able to do so on some future occasion. It gives me great pleasure 

 to learn that it is your intention to publish a "Flora of Scandinavia," 

 as it is a work which is much required, and will be the more valuable 

 as coming from your hand. As you have so liberally offered to 

 send me some of the rarer and more interesting plants of Scandinavia, 

 I have added a list of some of those which I more particularly desire 

 to possess. ... I have now only to add that it will always give me 

 gratificartion to supply you with any specimens and information that 

 may be in my power, and to request that you will accept this letter 

 as a mark of the high esteem and respect with which I regard you. 



