My dear M^r Oliver

If you have Rafinesque’s New Flora of N. America, will you kindly look & tell me the date of Part First.²

Drumond of Swan River has sent me seeds of a Compos. Plant.—Styloncerus Humifusus of Labillard.³ As, after looking at them, I shall not want them, I have thought I would just mention that I had them, in case they sh^d. of any use at Kew; not that I suppose they would.—   He has sent me seeds of Distylis which I shall plant.—   You sent me a Goodenia, also, so I shall have plenty of this order now.— I have been pleased at a prophecy which I made to myself coming true, viz that Bees would open the indusium & get out the pollen & thus accidentally carry it from flower to flower, for Drummond writes that he watches a small Bee busily employed in extracting the pollen out of the indusium of a Brunonia.—   This feat, would I expect puzzle our European Bees.—

Yours very truly | C. Darwin