My dear Dyer,

Can you tell me the name of the enclosed Epimedium, & I enclose an addressed post card to save you trouble. The long flower peduncles with yellow flowers come up separately from the leaves early in the spring out of doors.¹

In the summer I asked for some Gossypium seeds, but you had none; if you have any now I should be grateful for a few; but only species producing large cotyledons, such as the Nankin cotton which I had formerly from Kew, would be of any use to me²  Thompson of Ipswich sent me G. herbaceum but these were of no use, and he has no other kind.³

My dear Dyer | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin