My dear Dyer,

You told me that after M^r Lynch’s return, my asking for plants would not be very troublesome.¹

By any strange chance have you a Robinia pseudoacacia in a pot; or so small a plant that it could be potted for me? A nurseryman potted a plant about 3 feet high for me, & it died at once.² You know that the leaflets depress themselves a little if a branch is shaken for a minute or two. Now if you have any other species behaving in the same way, it would do equally well for my purpose.

I have received Schrankia from M^r Ellacombe; it was not potted, but to my surprise has recovered. It is to be forwarded afterwards to Kew.³

If M^r Lynch can find any other plant living near the sea with bloom on its leaves I should be very glad of it⁴

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin