My dear Dyer

I said I w^d. not trouble you again for ever so long, but I told an awful falsehood. I want badly some seeds of Trifolium resupinatum. Help if you can.— It is the plant which has bloom on only half the lateral leaflets & I have thought of some experiments to try, which may possibly throw light on the use of bloom.² My plants kept in greenhouse set no seed.

Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

I removed with tepid sponge bloom from some Australian Acacias in June & no apparent effect was produced, but now these leaves have just dropped off, whilst those above & below adhere & look quite healthy!³