My dear Father

I send references of Pinguicula & Utricularia copied out exactly.

I am delighted Frank² is all right as I knew he would be.

Your affect son | W. E. D.

M^r Broomfield says of U. vulgaris “I have observed that the stems float about in the water unconnected by any root or visible means of communication with the soil, a fact since confirmed by Rev^d W. H. Coleman, who supposes that the extremities of the branches detach themselves in early spring, & continue increasing in length through the summer, as they are at first not above an inch or two in length & without bladders”³

Pinguicula lusitanica

In spongy bogs & moist heathy places in W. Medina: rare; probably attaining here its eastern limit. Plentiful on piece of boggy ground Called Little Moor, just below Cockleton Farm near W. Cowes July 1839!!! on Colwell heath, sparingly.

Utricularia vulgaris.

W. Medina—in several drains & ditches in Marsh at Freshwater Gate, never seen by me in Flower.— Ditches in marsh at Easton, plentifully FL:Vect:!!!⁴

U. minor—very rare

E. Medina—abundantly in the meadows immediately below the farm at Langbridge by Newchurch, but flowering very sparingly M^r Jacobs 1842⁵