Discusses homologies of plant organs.

The passion-flower tendril should be considered a modified branch rather than a modified flower. Considers the distinction between the peduncle and the leaf midrib.

References to and résumés of articles on climbing plants.

Will be glad to do diagram for CD;

asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].

Thanks for photograph.

Reports his limited observations on climbing of Nepenthes.

Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.

Hermann Crüger left no widow.

Returns a paper which he has looked over.

Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.

Gives CD some references to papers.

Reports improvement in his wife’s health.

Identifies a plant.

CD will not find Hermann Schacht’s Lehrbuch [der Anatomie und Physiologie der Gewächse (1856–9)] at the Linnean Society Library.

Arrangements for obtaining Carl Nägeli a set of British Hieracium specimens.

Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.

DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.