My Dear Father,

I enclose drawings of more Menyanthes anthers,¹ tho’ I am not sure whether you want them.

No’s 4 & 5 in first set of short styled anthers have double lines in part of the out-line, that is where gum on drying appeared to have contracted the anthers.²

I unfortunately put all 10 (being all the anthers from 4 separate flowers from different plants, 2 long, & 2 short) on the glass at once, so that by the time I had drawn some the others had shrunk a little. As you see in (1) flower of the long styled also, in (2) flowers of the short-styled

I also enclose drawings of Pulmonaria anthers.³ I took them all from the buds or as near buds as I could get.

You will see I have one flower of long & short marked as “hardly beginning to open” which appeared to me to be just in the same state, or if anything the long styled was the least bit more advanced.⁴

I am afraid I have gathered the last of the Pulmonaria except in full bloom, as it was I had a job to find buds.

Your affect. Son | W E D

I have come across an old book published at Newark in 1787 written by Robert Waring Darwin brother of Erasmus called Principia Botanica⁵