WCP2094

Letter (WCP2094.1984)

[1]

Tiverton

27 Sept. 1867

My dear Sir,

I am much obliged to you for so kindly sending the specimen of Euphrasia joubertiana?1 [sic] to me. I will examine it with care on my return home next week and again write to you.

So much of foreign seed now comes to this country that it is not at all [2] improbable that the plant may have been thus introduced.

I am sorry to deduce from your words that this is the only specimen that you found. It can hardly have been the only one if it is anything more than a state of the ordinary E. Odontites.2

Believe me to be | yours truly | Charles C. Babington [signature]

Address "Cambridge" omitting[?] St Johns [sic] Coll[ege]. [3] C. C. Babington3

1
Euphrasia, (Eyebright); a genus of flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae. E. joubertiana was not found in IPNI: <https://www.ipni.org> [accessed 6 May 2020].
2
Commonly known as Red Eyebright
3
"C.C. Babington" is written in ink at the top if p.[[3]] in an unknown but apparently contemporary hand.

Editorial information

Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP2094.1984)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Paterson, Gavin [2019-12-17] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP2094,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2094