My dear Sir,

I am quite ashamed of my self for my stupidity & am much obliged to you. There is an error but it is exactly the reverse of what I pointed out. Will you please to have an erratum inserted as follows.¹

p 191 bottom line beginning with the words “The sole conjecture which I can form is that the crossed seeds &c” read “The sole conjecture which I can form is that the self-fertilised seeds had not been sufficiently ripened, & thus produced weakly plants which grew at first at an abnormally quick rate, as occurred with Iberis.”²

Pray forgive me & believe me yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

There is no error in p. 275³