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To J. V. Carus   21 December [1875]1

Down, Beckenham | Kent

Dec 21.

My dear Sir

Be so kind as to make the enclosed correction.—

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

[Enclosure]

Climbing Plants2

p. 154. (second line of foot-note)

for P. acerifolia, read, P. sicyoides

p. 208 (Index)

for Passiflora acerifolia read Passiflora sicyoides.—

Professor Asa Gray writes to me that he made a mistake about the name of species.3

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. V. Carus, 21 December 1875.
2
CD had sent proof-sheets of Climbing plants to Carus in October 1875 (see letter to J. V. Carus, 14 October [1875]). The German translation was published in 1876 (Carus trans. 1876b).
3
Gray’s letter has not been found. The page numbers refer to Climbing plants 2d ed. Passiflora acerifolia (a synonym of Passiflora adenopoda) and Passiflora sicyoides are species of passion-flower.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10313,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10313