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locality, and if so of its growing so freely in a deep bog, is oe considerable. 
Eriocaulon is admitted a British € It is equally difficult to prove that 
Mimulus luteus did or did not exist in the Western Isles before 2n discovery 
of America. The indigenousness of so fine an addition to the British flora 
inulosa, "ni will snot day re-examine them under this maie 
marked * ballast plants." -They did not appear as casual escapes as H. C. 
supposes, but in € quantity in the bed of the old canal when the water was 
drained off. a biennis in particular extended continuously several 
miles and grew in masses. 
iiio cg luteo-album and Carex aquatilis, * confidently discarded” by 
H. C. W., are both marked with a note of interrogation in the list. I have a 
specimen of the first which, I think, if shown to H. C. W., would probably 
As to my specimens of Carex aquatilis, toy: have puzzled several 
botanists, and are fully described in the * Andover List? H. C. W. is doubt- 
less correct in thinking it extremely improbable that the true Carex aquatilis 
is to be found in North Hampshire. I have not asserted that it is. 
Rumex obtusifolius is marked with a note of interrogation, not because I 
doubt whether botanists in general would so name it, but because (as stated 
in the note in the ‘ Andover List’) I doubt whether it is not a variety from 
the type whence Professor Babington has drawn his description of Rumes 
obtusifolius. 
Salir caprea, is no doubt, correctly named, but I have never seen it in 
blossom in the district, and I am far too imperfectly learned in the species of 
Willow to say absolutely that I had found Salix capraa from comparison of a 
branch and summer leaves only. 
To sum up, the only — error which so able and so erar! a critic 
as H. C. W. has detected in the * Andover List, is the ission of * intro- 
died ' after Mimulus luteus. If I could hope (which I in e that H. C. W. 
has hit all the blots, I should confidently assert that a more accurate botanical 
list was never ipei 
arguments, and to be met in reply merely with objections to my style, lamen- 
tations over my tone, even criticisms of my English. I hope, for H. C. W.’s 
credit, as well as for my own profit, that the next time he has to take me in 
hand he will stick to the MR which becomes him best, viz. the scientifie style. 
C. B. C 
Dacea (East Indies), 15th January, 1868. 
