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From C. C. Babington   21 May 1864

Cambridge

21 May 1864

Dear Darwin,

I supposed that you wanted living specimens.1

I send, such as they are—very poor, some flowers(?) from specimens in my Herbarium.2

Let me know if you want living specimens and they shall be looked for in the proper season

Yours truly | Charles C. Babington—

1
CD had requested Lythrum specimens (see letter from C. C. Babington, 18 May 1864 and n. 2).
2
Babington sent specimens of Lythrum hyssopifolium from seven different localities; the identifying wrappers and two of the specimens are preserved with the envelope to this letter in DAR 142: 93. CD thanked Babington for sending specimens of what he called L. hyssopifolia in ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’, p. 190 (Collected papers 2: 124). See also letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864] and n. 2.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4505,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4505