To C. J. F. Bunbury   [before 9 May 1856]¹

The date is established by CD’s reference to a ‘list’ in the letter to C. J. F. Bunbury, 9 May [1856]. See also letter to C. J. F. Bunbury, 21 April [1856], in which CD asked for Bunbury’s assistance in comparing the floras of South Africa and Europe.

Drège 1843 included an introduction by Heinrich Friedrich Meyer.

There follows a list of ninety-six plant species copied by an amanuensis from Drège 1843. The list has been annotated by Bunbury using the symbols listed by CD. Ten species also have had ‘(S. Am.)’ written next to them by Bunbury. At the bottom of the list, Bunbury added the following comments: I have added the mark (S. Am.) to those which I know to be found also in South America.— CB. Addenda to the above list. CB. Typha latifolia—A. Polypogon Monspeliensis. Lappago racemosa (=Cenchrus racemosus, L. Rubus fruticosus (according to Ecklon & Zeyher, but I will not undertake to answer for its absolute identity with the British plant.) The reference is to Ecklon and Zeyher 1835–7. The list was also annotated by CD after it was returned by Bunbury. CD referred to this list and to Bunbury’s analysis in Natural selection, p. 552, where he stated: Some are littoral plants which may possibly have travelled by the coast; about 14 are aquatic or marsh plants which seem to have, as we have seen, some special means of diffusion; but 30 plants apparently do not come under either of these categories & I should infer (if really not naturalized by man’s agency) had migrated through the tropics during the cold period.