1889] Botany of the Barrow District. 349 



very little room Your small Garlic with rush-like leaves will 



be A. vineate ; that with daffodil leaves I should like to see when in 

 flower. You must notice whether it has one or two valves enclosing the 

 flower-heads, and whether it seems a native or the remains of former 

 cultivation. The flat leaves belong probably to A. scorodoprasum or 

 A. Babingtonii, both rare plants, but 1 do not think either is indigenous. 

 Any large Bat from Wexford will be worth attention. I hope that 



which is compared to a Rook will be captured If sent to you 



at Harrow you must get it skinned and stuffed at once ; but it might 

 make sure to have it put into a bottle with spirits of wine till you return : 

 that is the simplest way. 



(May 24th.} Miss Glascott has just sent me some fine Cochl. anglica 

 from near Waterford. I ought to thank you, too, for putting Miss G. 

 upon the search. Thank you for sending the Harrow Flora, and I well 

 remember when Mr. Hind was making his first list of Harrow plants. 

 .... Please go on sending me anything you wish named, and please 

 tell me what you wish me to do with the Harrow Flora, as it is not likely 

 to be very useful to me, and I think would be better in your hands; 

 and even if you have a second copy I daresay you would make better 



use of it than I could here One very desirable addition would 



be a list of the land and freshwater Shells. I hope you do not forget 

 the slugs. 



{June i si.} I have done my best with the specimens There 



is one very good Carex, C. divisa (that with the small, dark head and 

 tall stem). Please try and persuade your people to dry some good 



specimens of it Cochlearia seems all the same, C, anglica. On 



no account publish the localities by themselves : they are not worth it ; 

 but wait till you can make a good list, after all the summer's work has 

 been put together. Carex divisa is quite as good a find as the Cochlearia 

 anglica. Do get me some more specimens sent up direct to Dublin. 



(July 2oth.} How glad you will be to return home and gather the 

 plants for yourself, and see them growing. I think I shall be here 

 about beginning of August, but please write just a post-card to say 

 when you expect to come, and I shall be delighted to see you here. If 

 you will let me, I should like to see your list, and then I could tell you 

 which require looking after. About the land-shells, you cannot get on 

 without some book, and I hope you will get Jeffreys' (Gwyn- Jeffreys) 

 " British Conchology." I think vol. i., with Land-shells only, can be 

 had separately for IDS. Then you would not be troubled about the 

 synonyms for Succinea. 



(August loth.} Do not hesitate to send up your plants. You know 

 that I am always glad to do what I can to help you ; and if at the end 

 of the summer campaign you like to send me your complete list, I will 

 mark the rarest, and tell you which are worth publishing, and I think 

 you should draw up the list in the two names, your own and Miss L. G.'s, 

 with the initials of the finder to each locality. 



