Dear M^r Darwin

I wrote you this morning a very hurried letter to thank you for the exciting intelligence you were so kind as to send me.¹ I have been examining the leaves and seeds more attentively.²

As I have already written to you the “little glandular channelled or folded leaves” are those of Erica Tetralix   Of this I feel absolutely certain.³ No doubt this is abundant on the ground where the Pinguicula grows. The small sycamore shaped leaf quite puzzles me. I am inclined to think that it may be a cotyledonary leaf in which case there would be less chance of identifying it. There were besides certainly two germinating plantlets—each with two tiny seed-leaves and the fragment of a tigellum⁴ attached to them. They looked as if they belonged to different species and one I think was Cruciferous. There was also the fruit of a Carex with seed inclosed

I have tried hard to make out the species. It may be C. flava but I can’t be quite sure   Then there was the end of a branchlet of the inflorescence of a Juncus—J. supinus, Moench.⁵ This was probably what you thought might be Rumex and there is a certain resemblance   It was something like this

I have been wishing for ever so long to set to work diligently at Nepenthes⁶   But I am very much in arrear with works of obligation and I shall have no opportunity of