From George Maw 17 May 1869
Benthall Hall, | nr Broseley.
May 17— 69
My dear Sir
I dried a few specimens of the drosophyllum & as the plants did not arrive in very good order, I think the dried specimen may perhaps better exhibit the characters of the plant; I will forward one to you by rail tomorrow.1
When I found it it was just coming into flower & had evidently not attained its full stature The foliage dries well but the bright yellow color of the flowers is very fugitive I fear it will be a tiresome plant to cultivate my live specimens arrived in bad condition but I am glad to find they are breaking nicely in the stove & I hope to save six or seven plants. Should yours not live I will find you another specimen when they are a little more recovered.
I got a number of very pretty Sedums most of which were new to me & are I think not in general cultivation2
I spent a day or two in the granite district north of Madrid & obtained a number of interesting plants, all of which appear to be doing well & I think I shall save the greater part of those I sent home from Barbary3 & Gibraltar.
Believe me to be | very truly yrs. | Geo Maw
C Darwin Esqr
Footnotes
Summary
He is managing to salvage a few Andalusian Drosophyllum plants from the voyage and will send some to CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6748
- From
- George Maw
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Benthall Hall
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 105
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6748,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6748.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17