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XXVI. On several new or imperfectly understood British and European Plants. 

 By Charles C. Babington, M.A., F.L.S. F.G.S., S^c. In a Letter to 

 Edward Forster, Esq., V.P.L.S., &;c. 8fc. 



Read December 1st and 15th, 1835. 

 My dear Sir, 



XF the following observations on a few newly discovered or imperfectly 

 understood British and European plants appear to you worthy of being com- 

 municated to the Linnean Society, I should feel much obliged by your sub- 

 mitting them to that body at an early meeting. I may be allowed to add, that I 

 am indebted to our mutual friend W. Borrer, Esq., F.L.S., &c. for drawing my 

 attention to the subject, and granting me the use of his library and extensive 

 herbarium in its elucidation. 



I am, &c. 



Charles C. Babington. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 October 13th, 1S35. 



To E. Forste)^, Esq., F.P.L.S., ^c. ^c. 



1. Hemiaria hirsuta. Linn. 



Caulibus herbaceis prostratis pilis patentibus hirsutis, foliis ovali-oblongis, 



florum sessilium glomerulis axillaribus. 

 H. hirsuta. Linn. Herb.-, Sp. PI. 317. Huds. Fl. Angl. i. 109. Engl. Bot. 



1379. DeCand. Prodr. iii. 367. Pers. Syn. i. 292. Sm. Engl. Fl. ii. 9. 



Bot. Gall. i. 197. Hooker, Brit. Fl. ed. 3. 144. 

 Hoary Rupture- wort. Petiv. Herb. x. 10. 



Densely hairy throughout ; ste?ns covered with straight spreading hairs, giving 

 the plant a grey tinge ; flowers large in comparison with the following 

 species, but fewer in number in each cluster ; calyx covered with strong 



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