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

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Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.

Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.

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Sends a specimen of Schrankia.

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Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.

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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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Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.

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Wants Trifolium seed.

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

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Describes experiments on sensitivity of plant leaves to water.

Frank [Darwin] has found that Drosera leaves fed with meat contain more starch.

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Asks for some seeds of coniferous plants. Wants to examine their first leaves.

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Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.

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Thanks for the plants.

Is doubtful whether he will make out anything about "bloom".

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Wants a Euphorbia to test for leaf movements.

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Thanks for plants.

Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.

WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.

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Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation

and for information about Mussaenda.

Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.

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Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]

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Thanks R. I. Lynch for his MS on Averrhoa.

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Information on plants requested by CD.

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Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.

Thanks for letter about Trifolium

and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.

Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].

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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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Thanks for Euphorbia.

Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.