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leg is now healed, so far as the inflammation of hip-joint is concerned. 

 But I cannot use the limb at all, it remains so tender, and is also rheu- 

 matic ; so I just limp along on crutches and travel out in a bath-chair. 

 So far I have been out every day, even all through the winter, and am 

 now working regularly, for a short time, in preparing for a second 

 edition of " Cybele." 



This reminds me to ask you, how soon may we expect a fresh edition 

 of the " Manual" ? Ninth, is it not ? For I am sadiy troubled about 

 the proposed changes of name, as advocated in the London Cata- 

 logue and "Journal of Botany," with probably more still to come in 

 Jackson's Kew List. And, I wish we had some reasonable guide to 

 follow. It is almost impossible to select for oneself among so many 

 alterations, proposed and re-altered again. 



The Potamogetons seem a fine field for experiments in this way 

 are they not ? and are to be all hashed up afresh, for a while : until they 

 settle down again. What is to be done ? With kindest remembrances 

 to Mrs. Babington and yourself, your sincere friend, 



A. G. MORE. 



written during a most depressing period of his own illness, and the handwriting 

 bears manifest traces of effort: 



loth August, 1886. 



DEAR PATER, I am so sorry to hear from Fanny that you have been 

 suffering so much pain, but I am glad that it has been a little less severe during 

 the last few days, and I trust that the improvement will continue. It must be a 

 great privation to you not being able to go about your garden as usual. I have 

 myself felt how tedious it is to be disabled and imprisoned for now six months 

 on my sick bed. 



I saw a new Doctor to-day, and I think he takes a little more hopeful view of 

 my case, and (hat there is still some little prospect of my getting up again, in 

 time ; though my case must be a very tedious one. 



And now as from one sick room to another, I wish you less pain and more 

 comfort, and especially good sleep at night. With best love from your affectionate 

 son, 



A. G. MORE. 



