My dear Dyer

I have just read in Nature the review of Forms of Flowers, & I am sure that it is by you.—¹ I wish with all my heart that it deserved one quarter of the praise which you give it. Some of your remarks have interested me greatly.— I knew nothing about the wonderful nature of the so called peduncle of Arachis.—² Hearty thanks for your generous & most kind sympathy, which does a man real good, when he is as dog-tired as I am at this minute with working all day, so goodbye

C. Darwin

The peduncle of Cyclamen Persicum does bow downwards with force enough slight to impress sand, though it does not become at all spiral.³