My dear H.

I enclose a flower with apparently a single stamen having become foliaceous & bilateral— is not this still more curious? I have not opened it, that you might yourself judge of its insertion. Standard wings & Keel all purple—the two wings slightly unequal in size—Keel with the apex little bifid— In all other respects resembled the other purplish flowers on the raceme.— It was terminal or penultimate flower, & this position seems favourable for the change, for I have now 3 other bilateral flowers in these positions.

I once saw Laburnum with almost every raceme terminated by a peloriated flower—¹

Ever yours | C. D.—