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### Author
Babington, Charles Cardale (1808-1895), British botanist, professor of botany at Cambridge.
**Abbreviated name**: *Bab.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bab.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection CGE|CGE]] (orig. herb.) and [[Collection BM|BM]] (*Rubus*); duplicates e.g. [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]].
*Ref*.: BB p. 12; IH 2: 47.
- Kent, Brit. herbaria 40. 1957.
- Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 56. 1970.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 1: 332, 6(1): 566; Barnhart 1: 97; BB p. 12; BL 2: 625\[index\]; BM 1: 79, 6: 44; Bossert p. 19; CSP 1: 136-139, 7: 62, 9: 91, 12: 33, 13: 220; DNB suppl. I. 1: 90; GR p. 368; IF p. 675; Jackson p. 517 \[index\]; Kew 1: 111; LS 1367-1374; PR ed. 1, 374-378, ed. 2, 298-304; Zander ed. 10, 594, 629.
- Aderhold, Gen.-Reg. Bot. Zeit. 94. 1895 (list of reviews).
- Britten, J. Bot. 33: 257-266. 1895 (portr.)
- Mayor, Cambridge Chronicle 30 Aug 1895, p. 4 (fide Desmond).
- Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1895-1896: 30-32. 1896.
- Babington, A. M., Memorials, journal and botanical correspondence of C. C. Babington (with a preface by the editor), Cambridge 1897 (portr.; bibl. of periodical articles on p. 447-454) (see also Britten, J. Bot. 36: 33-35. 1898).
- Davey, Fl. Cornwall xlii. 1909 (1910).
- White, Fl. Bristol 91-93. 1912.
- Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 49. 1936.
- Riddelsdell, Flora of Gloucestershire cxviii. 1948.
- Desmond, DSB 1: 358-359. 1970.
#### Composite works
Editor of *Annals and Magazine of natural History* vols. 9-20 and ser.2, vol. 1 – ser. 4, vol. 20 (1842-1877).
#### Eponymy
*Babingtonia J*. Lindley (1842).
#### Note
*Strigula Babingtonii* Berkeley was called after Babington's cousin the reverend Churchill Babington (1821-1889, see e.g. J. Bot. 27: 110-111. 1889), a lichenologist whose herbarium is also at CGE. C. C. Babington's father Joseph B. (1768-1826) was also a botanist; his plants are also at CGE.
### Publications
##### n.214. Flora bathoniensis
**Title**
*Flora bathoniensis*: or, a catalogue of the plants indigenous to the vicinity of Bath. Bath (E. Collins), Bristol (G. Tremlett and W. Strong), London (Longman & Co.) 1834. Duod. (in sixes)
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. bath.*
**Notes**
*Orig*.: Jan 1834 (P & W; Linn. Soc. 3 Feb 1834; p. vi: Nov 1833), \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-62, \[1, add.\], \[4, ind.\] *Copies*: HH, M.
*Supplement to the Flora bathoniensis*, Bath 1839, presented to Linn. Soc. on 24 Mai 1839, \[i\*\], \[lxiii\]-lxv, \[67\]-105, \[106 err.\], \[4, ind.\] *Copy*: HH.
*Ref*.: BL 2: 264; BM 1: 79; Jackson p. 248; Kew 1: 111; LS 1367; PR 298.
- Hooker, J. Bot. 2: 185-187. Mai 1840.
- White, Fl. Bristol 91. 1912.
##### n.215. Primitiae florae sarnicae
**Title**
*Primitiae florae sarnicae*; or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Serk. Containing a catalogue of the plants indigenous of the islands: with occasional observations upon their distinctive characters, affinities, and nomenclature. London (Longman & Co., H. Bailliere), Cambridge (G. Barraclough), Bath (E. Collings), Paris (J. B. Bailliere), Leipzig (J. A. G. Weigel) 1839. Duod.
**Abbreviated title**: *Prim. fl. Sarnicae*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Jun 1839 (p. xvi: 30 Mai 1839; pres. to Linn. Soc. on 10 Jun 1839; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 3: 341-343. Jul 1839; London med. Gaz. 26: 629. 10 Jul 1840), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-132. *Copies*: B, HH, NY.
*Ref*.: BM 1: 79; Jackson p. 252; Kew 1: 111; LS 1368; PR 299.
- Hooker, J. Bot. 2: 185-187. Mai 1840.
##### n.216. Manual of British botany
**Title**
*Manual of British botany*, containing the flowering plants and ferns arranged according to the natural orders. London (John van Voorst) 1843. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Man. Brit. bot.*
**Notes**
|ed. |pages |dates |notes |copy|
|--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |
|1 |\[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-400 |Mai-Jul 1843 |pref. 1 Mai, Flora 7 Aug 1843, Bot. Zeit. 25 Aug 1843. |NY|
|2 |\[i\]-xxxii, \[i\]-428 |Jan-Jul 1847 |"second edition, with many additions and corrections" |NY|
|3 |\[i\]-xxxii, \[1\]-434 |1851 |"third edition ... \[idem\]" |NY|
|4 |\[i\]-xxxii, \[1\]-446 |1856 |"fourth edition ... \[idem\]" |NY|
|5 |\[i\]-lii, \[1\]-449 |1862 |"fifth edition ... \[idem\]" |NY|
|6 |\[i\]-lii, \[1\]-464 |Jan-Sep 1867 |"sixth edition ... \[idem\]." (Flora 8 Oct) |NY|
|7 |\[i\]-lxiii, \[1\]-473 |Mai-Jun 1874 |"seventh edition. Corrected throughout" |NY|
|8 |\[i\]-xlviii, \[2, err.\], \[1\]-485<br/>\[2\], addenda |Aug 1881<br/>Aug 1883 |"eighth edition ... \[idem\]" – (Nat. Nov. Sep 1881) |NY|
|9 |\[i\]-lii, \[1\]-580 |Mai-Sep 1904 |"Enlarged from the author's manuscripts and other sources" edited by Henry and James Groves, (preface p. xi: May 1904; Nat. Nov. Oct. 1904), London (Gurney and Jackson) |HH|
|10 |\[i\]-liv, \[1, corr.\], \[1\]-162 |1922 |"with amended nomenclature clature and an appendix edited by A. J. Wilmott" (p. xi: 24 Apr 1922) London (Gurney and Jackson). |HH|
*Ref*.: BM 1: 79; Kew 1: 111; PR 300.
- Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 1: 578-579. 25 Aug 1843 (rev. ed. 1 from July 1843 issue of Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.)
- Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 2: 449-450. 21 Juni 1844 (rev. ed. 1 by Schlechtendal himself).
- Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 5: 605-606. 20 Aug 1847 (rev. ed. 2).
- Britten, J. Bot. 19: 280-284. Sep 1881 (rev. ed. 8).
- Rickett, NAF 28B(2): 318. 1945.
##### n.217. Flora of Cambridgeshire
**Title**
*Flora of Cambridgeshire*: or a catalogue of plants found in the county of Cambridge, with references to former catalogues, and the localities of the rarer species. London (John Van Voorst) 1860. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Cambridgeshire*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1860, p. \[i\]-lvi, \[1\]-327, map. *Copy*: NY.
*Ref*.: BM 1: 79; Kew 1: 111; PR 302.
- Britten, J. Bot. 36: 323. 1898 (annotated copy, now at CGE).
- Perring et al., Fl. Cambridgeshire 2-4. 1964.