1889] Driven to the Water-line. 



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runners ; (3) flowering and fruiting specimens, showing the various 

 shapes of floating leaves. Do not think me too greedy ; I am trying to 

 settle a critical question about our Irish plants, so that you can help 

 me most effectively. And I think you generally have some specimens 

 dried. Can you at same time say whether Alisma natans has the dis- 

 agreeable bug-like smell of A. repens, or is it scentless ? 



The flowers of A. natans, are they not ure white, with no purplish 

 tinge ? Is there any yellow spot at base ? 



Are you not coming some day to Ireland ? When I get better I 

 should have great pleasure in seeing you here, especially as I cannot 

 at present cross to see you in Bangor. Yours, 



A. G. MORE. 



In writing to Mr. Stewart, too whose Flora was now all 

 but ready for press there is an aquatic plant mentioned of 

 which he wants a bit "begged" for him. But of more 

 interest, in the same letter, is the confident expression of 

 his belief in Admiral Jones' record of Rubus Chamaemorus, 

 on the Tyrone mountains, which long afterwards was justi- 

 fied by its re-discovery. 



July i6th, 1887. 



DEAR SIR, Many thanks for the slips. They are of great interest 

 to me, and I may fairly tell you that I think your work is right well 

 done. When the time comes I hope to have the pleasure of reviewing 

 your book in "Journal of Botany." On looking over the books and 

 reading your remarks, I must agree with you that the Deny Epipactis 

 is more likely E. ensifolia. I had no idea that E. palustris was so very 

 scarce with you. I wish you could re-discover the broad-leaved form 



of Cephalanthera at Shane's Castle. Might not search for it ? 



Is not he also the right man to look up Pyrola secunda and Rubus 

 Chamaemorus ? I cannot believe that there is any mistake about the 



latter. Admiral Jones knew the Alpine Scottish Flora well 



Could you find someone to, or could you yourself, make an investigation 

 of the Lough Neagh aquatics ? I have a friend doing famously at 

 Killarney with a garden rake, pulling up all the Potamogetons, &c. 

 This plan might bring up some Elatine Hydropiper in fresh places in 

 your district. Could you beg a bit for me from Mr. Lett ? In your 

 appendix of excluded I hope you will have two lists one for errors of 

 name, another for introductions. Yours truly, 



A. G. MORE. 



The garden-rake, by the way, had been his own sug- 

 gestion to his " friend at Killarney" (Mr. R. W. Scully), 

 as the latter states in his " Notes on some Kerry Plants," 

 published in the " Journal of Botany " for February, 1888. 



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