338 Alexander Goodman More. [i88T 



plant from Ballinahinch, = " pseudo-fluitans " of somebody. The 

 Kirkii belongs, I think, to this series 



I have urged several friends to collect some more of the Irish 

 aquatics. We shall hardly find Naias major, I fear. By-the-way, how 

 are all your little family ? 



Grown, I suppose, quite beyond my recollection ? At present I 

 cannot say how soon I may be able to travel so far as London, but the 

 doctor tells me I shall some day walk again on my bad leg. At present 

 I can only move in a bath-chair, and am lifted and carried. Disease of 

 the hip-joint is a terribly tedious malady. Yours very sincerely, 



A. G. MORE. 



" Thank you very much for your most valuable List of 

 Irish Localities and your Photo. I return you mine, with 

 kind remembrances to your happy family circle, and I hope 

 to spend another evening with you at Croydon when 

 sufficiently recovered : " is the beginning of his next letter 

 (Aug. 2nd), and a fortnight later, " Dear Mr. Bennett, I 

 cannot sufficiently thank you for all your kindness. . . . 

 Only in time, I shall hope to be able to offer you a few 

 Irish aquatics, if you want them. I must, in future, collect 

 from a boat. Hence, it will be in the water line that I shall 

 be engaged chiefly. Will you kindly continue to help 

 me ? " Mr. Bennett continued to help him very largely r 

 though he never was well enough to " collect from a 

 boat." 



His other letters to botanists at this time show the 

 same set purpose to concentrate attention on " the water 

 line." The following is to Mr. Griffith : 



July 2gth, 1887. 



DEAR SIR, I have been laid up now for eighteen months, and 

 cannot yet stand even on crutches. Hip-joint disease has been the 

 cause a most painful malady. I am just beginning to work a little at 

 botan)', towards a new edition of " Cybele Hibernica." By the way ,, 

 have you got our book ? or if not I should feel much pleasure if you will 

 let me send you a copy. Please mention if you want it. One of my 

 last days of field botany was with you at Llyn Coron more than two- 

 years ago. Since then I have had little but pain and imprisonment to 

 a sick room. 



Now I am writing to ask you to do me a kind favour. I want badly 

 four or five good specimens of Alisma natans. Can you kindly send me 

 a set to show (i) the submerged leaves alone; (2) the plant with its 



