Dear Sir

I am infinitely obliged to you for your interesting communications¹ which I w^d have acknowledged sooner had I been able. The Gentians are new to me, and I think form a valuable addition to the little we know about double flowers.

The Cabbage leaf is not very uncommon.

Thanks too for the Viola—

You will be interested in knowing that a very curious monster found this year near Ely shows the ovule—its nucleus I mean—to be another of the forms of the growing point—quite a new, & to me at least unexpected, fact, which was much wanted to complete the theory of morphological structure.² The evidence is perfect.

Your Scotch seeds³ proved Rumex Acetosella & this Atriplex—What species I do not know— At present I cannot find it in books. I have sent it to Henslow and shall show it to others— It cannot be any var of A. patula I think.

Very truly yours | John Lindley