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To Volney Rattan   3 November 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

November 3d 80

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged for the seeds of the Megarrhiza & for the information which I derived through your letter to Dr A. Gray.1

I will despatch to you in 2 or 3 weeks a book, in which I give the results of my observations on this interesting plant, but I had not specimens enough.—2

Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
Asa Gray had enclosed a letter from Rattan with observations on the germination of Megarrhiza californica (a synonym of Marah fabacea, California manroot); Rattan had also sent seeds of the plant to Gray (see letter from Asa Gray, 4 April 1880 and enclosure).
2
See Movement in plants, pp. 81–3. Rattan’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for the book (Appendix IV).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
2.1 to you] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12792,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12792