1885 } Symptoms of Breaking Down. 319 



CHAPTER XLIV. 



SYMPTOMS OF BREAKING DOWN. 

 [1884-5.] 



A short letter to Professor Babington, who had written 

 asking him to send a specimen of Senecio spathulaefolius* 

 to Mr. Backhouse, bears date October yth, 1884. 



DEAR BABINGTON. I have to-day sent off a fine specimen of 

 Cineraria spathulifolia to Mr. J. Backhouse. I was indeed glad to see 

 your handwriting again ; it seems such a long time since I had heard 

 from you. I sincerely trust that you are now quite well and strong again. 

 For myself I am just middling. I do not think I have quite recovered from 

 the numerous attacks I had of abscess in my leg-, though I am thankful 

 to say that I have not been troubled in that way for the last two years. 

 This summer I had two short trips with my sister, one to the Giant's 

 Causeway and the north coast of Antrim, and then again in September 

 we went together to Kilkee in Clare, which we enjoyed very much. I 

 had some idea of going to Cornwall, but my sister could not be spared 

 sufficiently long. 



I suppose you have seen the new edition of" Student's Flora." I am 

 quite surprised at the amount of alteration in the names, for I thought 

 we had nearly reached something like a fixed point. With very kind 

 remembrances to Mrs. Babington, yours very sincerely, 



A. G. MORE. 



That short trip to Kilkee for the first week of September, 

 1884 was his last visit to the West of Ireland. It was, 

 as he says, thoroughly enjoyed, and perhaps the last day 

 of it (September yth) the most thoroughly of all. That was 

 the day of the expedition to Dunbeg strand, between 

 Kilkee and Miltown-Malbay, where the two plants were 

 observed which he mentioned to Mr. Stewart (Viola lutea 

 and Asperula cynanchica). But the principal object of 

 quest on that afternoon was the shell, lanthina rotundata, 

 for which Dunbeg and its vicinity are somewhat celebrated. 



* TheHolyhead "Cineraria." 



