My dear William

Lenny is going on capitally.² He took a little tea & powdered meat this evening! His poor dear little face is something like itself again.

Any time that you can send me a few valerian flowers & of Erythræa, I sh^d. like to look at them.—³ But if the cases hold good you shall draw up a little account, which I will look over, & send it to the Linnean Soc^y.

I don’t quite understand your scale of measurement of pistil in Valerian: you speak of it as $\frac{3}{4}$ &c & yet it projects beyond the corolla, if I understand rightly.—⁴

The Erythræa almost seems a more curious case: is there any difference in nectary or in secretion of nectar or position of flowers in the two forms?⁵

Good Night— I am tired.— | C. Darwin