From W. E. Darwin   2 August [1862]1

Southampton

Aug 2.

My Dear Father,

I send off the 3 kinds of Lythrum, but I foolishly forgot moss, till I had not time to get any, so if they come withered I must send some more.2 I got these at a different place to the ones I had examined & I find the proportion of Mp’s much greater than before, at least 3 or 4 to 1 of either of the other, I only judge this from hunting about for Lps and Sps. the Mps seemed to grow in large clumps together.

incomplete

CD annotations

1.1 I send … examined 1.3] crossed pencil
1
The year is established by the relationship to the letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862.
2
See letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862. There is a note, dated ‘Aug 3d’, recording CD’s observations on specimens of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria sent from Southampton, in DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 8.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3677,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3677