Dear M^r. Darwin

On receipt of your letter I wrote to D^r. Bornet to say that though his kind offer seeds of Draba was very tempting to you, yet on account of press of work you were obliged to decline with thanks.—²

Yesterday I received a letter containing the following passage:

“Since M^r. Darwin might be interested by recieving seeds of Draba, I shall send him some as soon as the seed-harvest is completed. If he cannot make use of them this year, he may next. Besides, the mode of cultivation is most easy. The seeds are sown in pots in August & the pots buried in earth almost to the level of the ground— The seeds develop fine rosettes of leaves & open their flowers in the first fine days of the following spring—

Thus M^r. Darwin might have time to complete his present work.”—

I write this to exculpate myself, & to make it clear that I am not responsible for your recieving seeds of Draba against your will.—

D^r. Bornet tells me now that Indigofera does not always throw off its wings as I described but that they fall readily with the keel after the emission of pollen.—³

This is very similar to what happens in Genista & Sarothamnus— I was misled by watching the artificial treatment of the flowers.

Y^rs. Very sincerely | J. Traherne Moggridge.