Dear Darwin

Drosera binata, (Labillardiere) is the right name to adopt.¹U. Amethystia comes from Guiana.—& is marsh apparently U. nelumbiifolia from the top of the Organ Mts. & is aquatic or subaquatic² (see over page)

On arrival I found a small box just arrived with Aldrovanda from a correspondent at Hamburgh!³ Harriett⁴ sends you half of it in bottle by this post. If you don’t want to grow it please put it in spirits—but grow it if you can.

Oliver’s paper is⁵

The Utricularia that grows on other plants is the identical U. nelumbifolia we looked at yesterday & the history was on the ticket!!! under all our noses & in very large hand-writing too. I find it referred to in Gardners travels & Harriette has copied the passage!⁶

Oliver & I have been 2 hours at that little devil of a seed & are dead beat—as is Bentham!⁷— — this, is dicotyledonous & exalbuminous.

Ever yours affec | J D Hooker

The large Utricularia from Yorkshire is true U. vulgaris

Your smaller one is the U. neglecta Lehm., a very rare British plant indeed, only noted for Epex— I had never seen it alive before or should doubtless have kept it—as a good species— Please send me its habitat.

I have just heard of the death of an aunt (my mothers eldest sister)⁸—and shall go to the funeral at Yarmouth on Saturday