My dear Dyer

The tendrils are very curious; I have seen something of the kind though not so well marked. How pretty are the affinities of plants, when I glanced at the tendrils, I said that they must belong to some Cucurbitaceous plant, though I knew no more than the man in the moon what Hodgsonia was.—² The little white transparent flakes which project from the sides of the tendrils, here & there, where they have been in contact, & which look like flakes of dry gum, are I find under the microscope cellular outgrowths.

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin