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Lists of Acacia and Eucalyptus species.

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CD wants some plants; asks Lynch to raise some Cactaceae for him. Observations on sensitivity and movements of radicle.

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Asks for Cassia plants.

What books could CD give R. I. Lynch to show his gratitude?

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Sends quotations on Dionaea and Sarracenia. [See Insectivorous plants, 2d ed., pp. 243, 366.]

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Asks for identification of an Oxalis flower.

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Sends information on nitrogen and albuminoid content of seeds of Brassica.

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Oxalis seeds incorrectly named. H. N. Moseley says pigeons in Malaya eject seeds fit for germination.

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Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.

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Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.

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Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.

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Wants Trifolium seed.

Has been rereading WTT-D’s letters on "bloom".

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Thanks WTT-D for his present of Sachs’s book [Textbook of botany (1875)].

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Thanks for the plants for heliotropic experiments.

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Thanks for WTT-D’s kindness about the orchids.

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Thanks for second edition of Duchartre.

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Has sent Mimosa. The horticultural and physiological Mimosa is M. albida, which has a western distribution, rather than M. sensitiva as it is commonly called in error.

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Magnificent supply of Euphorbiae arrived safely.

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Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].

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CD may not mean same thing as WTT-D by absorbent pegs in Abronia.

F. O. Bower’s paper on Welwitschia [germination] [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 21 (1881): 15–30] will appear in January.

Has observed earthworms for CD: they do not draw Robinia leaves into burrows by the petioles.

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Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.