io8 Alexander Goodman More. [1859 



even doubting whether his book had been printed ; but in 

 September it was ascertained to be in existence ; in Octo- 

 ber it was obtained, and on the 3Oth of that month Mr. More 

 wrote to inform Professor Babington that he had no longer 

 any doubt of the identity of his plant with Le Gall's Fes- 

 tuca ambigua an identification in which Professor Babing- 

 ton, on reading the description, quite agreed. Festuca 

 ambigua therefore took its place in the British Flora. j|It 

 made a fourth to the little trio of species (Matthiola incana, 

 Calamintha sylvatica, and Arum italicum), which^were then 

 believed to be limited in Britain to the Isle of Wight. 



