To J. D. Hooker   17 August [1864]

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Aug 17.

My dear Hooker

You seem to have been terribly hard worked which makes me the more obliged to you about the names of the 2 enclosed plants.1 The name of the Bignonia is certainly of importance to me. It resembles in its tendrils B. unguis. I have cut the whole top of my plant off & so have no other specimen.2

What you tell me about the Hanburya having tendrils is a sore grief to me.3 If making out the Jasminum is troublesome I can call it an unnamed Tropical species.4 Thank goodness I have nearly come to the end of my climbing paper5 & I am sure that you have cause to thank goodness also. I am particularly glad to hear a good account of the appearance of Scott, & I am glad you have told me.6 You have been uncommonly kind about him.

yours affectly. | Ch. Darwin

LS

Endorsement: ‘/64’

1
CD was uncertain about the names of two of his climbing specimens, Jasminum pauciflorum (see memorandum to J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1864?] and n. 5), and ‘Bignonia buxifolia’ (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 August [1864] and n. 4).
2
In his letter of [15 August 1864], Hooker had asked for a leaf the plant CD referred to as Bignonia buxifolia.
5
The reference is to ‘Climbing plants’. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1864] and n. 9.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4593,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4593