Dear Darwin

I send seeds of two of your desiderata, & can get you most of the others.¹ We can send you plants of

Arachis hypogæa

Marsilea quadrifolia²

Castor oil—

Mimosa albida—

Desmod: gyrans (too young to send yet)⁴

✓Nelumbium—as soon as the leaf is up. I suppose you want leaves only—it is a huge thing—we can send you plant easily enough—i.e. rhizome.

✓Musa glauca we have not but I can send other glaucous Musas⁵

Mimosa sensitiva we lost & I fear cannot get again— I have written to Brazil for the seeds.

✓Averrhoa Carambola we never had; but we can lend you A. Bilimbi which probably goes to sleep the same way⁶

Strephium guineanse— I can find no such name in Bot. works.⁷

“Other water plants with good bloom”— I know of none such..

“English wild plants with bloom”— I think I remember a good many,—& would suggest you looking at

Aquilegia—

Papaver somniferum

Chelidonium

✗Glaucium luteum

Fumaria some.

✗Brassica.— Crambe.—

✗Cakile— Isatis—

Dianthus— Saponaria.

Stellaria glauca

Lathyrus sylvestris—palustris.

Rubus stems of various

Sedum dasyphyllum

✗Eryngium maritimum

Chrysanthemum segetum.

Tragopogon

Lactuca virosa— Sonchus

Chlora perfoliata

✗Mertensia maritima

Primula farinosa

Polygonum bistorta

— maritimum

Chenopodium glaucum

Atriplex

Aristolochia clematitis

Euphorbias various

Salix various

various Grasses as Psamma arenaria & Phragmitis communis.⁸

The above I think are all more or less glaucous⁹ especially on one or other surface of the leaf.— Those with a ✗ are more or less glaucous all over & are maritime—heaps more are glaucous here or there.

I will get together some observations, from the Garden & write again.— answer required where I have placed ✓.

Ever yr affec | J. D Hooker