My Dear Father,

I am sorry to say you have misunderstood my letter,¹ I wrote in a great hurry & was afraid it was not quite clear. In the diagrams of the long styled, each separate drawing is from the anther of a different plant; and all I meant was, that XX looked so large that I was alarmed whether it was not a short styled anther after all, & that I had made a blunder; so I took it & compared it with what I knew to be Long styled anthers’ pollen, & I found them both the same, proving that it was a long styled as I had intended.²

When I said X & XX did not come from same flower, all I meant was that out of the 5 Long styled anthers I drew, 2 separate plants had the long anthers. I will get some pulmonaria and see about the anthers, whether the larger anthers run through whole plants or whether each plant has a large one—³

I have not yet separated the Menyanthes into bundles & counted the proportion, but I will.⁴

I will also see about marking Menyanthes