My dear Hooker

Will you have kindness to read enclosed.² Is the little fact new? Is it too trifling (on principle that “Lex de minimis non curat”)³ to be worth printing? Do not let me publish rubbish.—   If worth publishing, shall I send it to Linn. Soc. or to Gardeners Chronicle?⁴ I looked at the seeds for simple amusement, & then the case seemed a little curious, & I thought M^r. Drummond would perhaps like to see his fact published.—⁵ To save you trouble I send envelope directed & stamped.—

Please do not let me publish absurdly small fact,— perhaps already well known.—

Ever yours | C. Darwin

I call plant Siloxerus because Steudel⁶ gives it as prior to Styloncerus.—⁷ I enclose seeds of no use to me or to anyone, I suppose.—

P.S. | I wrote to Oliver⁸ to ask him for date of publication in Pritzel⁹ or elsewhere, of “Rafinesques New Flora of N. America Part I.”¹⁰ Can you tell me? I hear that Oliver will not return till Jan 5^th. — If you can answer me, please tell him.—