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To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   27 [June 1874]

Very many thanks for letter about erica tetralix— My daughter in N. Wales says the miniature sycamore leaf is that of bog-pippernel.1

In Haste. | Ch. Darwin

Down. 27th

ApcS

Postmark: JU 28 74

1
The letter from CD’s prospective daughter-in-law, Amy Ruck, identifying as bog pimpernel (Anagallis tenella) some of the small leaves that she had sent him stuck to specimens of Pinguicula (butterwort) has not been found; for Thiselton-Dyer’s identification of others as Erica tetralix (cross-leaved heath), see the letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 26 June 1874.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9566,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9566