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Thanks for Euphorbia.

Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.

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Wants a plant identified;

would like some cotton seeds.

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Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.

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Requests plants that show movement, and any with "bloom" living near the sea.

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Wants cryptogam identified; has been observing its movements.

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Discusses the death of his daughter-in-law.

Plans to visit Southampton.

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Composition of the residue left on evaporation of the fluid in Nepenthes.

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Is acquiring some "maritime and glaucous" plants for CD.

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Thanks for cotton seeds.

Germination of Megarrhiza.

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H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.

CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.

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CD’s curious observations on Trifolium resupinatum.

Describes a Maranta remarkable for its leaf asymmetry: its leaves are elliptical on one side and oblong on the other.

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CD obliged about the Schrankia

and thanks WTT-D for details of last number of Gardeners’ Chronicle.

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Discusses plants sent for experiments and "bloom" on leaves of Trifolium.

Sends enclosure for R. I. Lynch.

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The amphicarpic habit.

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Has failed with his experiments on aerial roots.

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Thanks for seeds and for kindness to Frank Darwin.

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Wants plants with two sets of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [13041a] has made him wish to renew experiments and observations carried out 20 years ago.

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Hooker, just returned from U. S., says Pinus nordmanniana leaves are spread horizontally in the morning and rise during the day.

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Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.

Occurrence of "bloom".

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Movement in plants.

Information on species of Cassia.