Dear M^r Darwin

On the recp^t. of your letter I looked out amongst our pot plants all the maritime and glaucous things that I thought might be useful to you.¹ We could have supplied you with a good collection of seaside plants if we could have foreseen that you would work at them this year. But most of our things are planted out and cannot be disturbed so as to be worth anything afterwards. I could not, however, refrain from digging up our plant of Eryngium and sending it to you to take its chance.

Oxalis Enneaphylla is a Falkland Island plant. Euphorbia myrsinites is not a littoral species— perhaps its ancestors were as it is very like E. Paralias in habit.²

2 spp: of Erythrina have gone. Also, I hope, a Hæmatoxylon though I found this was omitted on the ground that it had been sent before.³ But I hope the parcel was stopped in time.

Schrankia we do not possess this year. I understand, however, that the Rev H. N. Ellacombe of Bitton n^r Bristol [1 page or more missing]⁴

P.S. I am horribly weary of letter writing so please excuse any slips. I have been obliged to call my wife⁵ to my aid all the morning