From H. M. Wilkinson   15 September 1874

Dear Professor Darwin

I have been down this afternoon to the Utricularia but it is almost gone. It appears to have broken up into little pieces of a few inches long, such as some I have sent.¹

And this seems to be natural, as there has been no disturbance of the other weeds. I searched diligently to find any that had sunk to the bottom but in vain: The plant is no longer on the top of the water, except a few small pieces but lying submerged on the frogs bit with which it grows. It seems to me to be decaying and I think will have decayed, all at any rate, except the stem, before it reaches the bottom, if it ever does so.

The greater portion of what I have sent consists of the broken pieces which I found half floating— The one or two longer pieces are apparently late flowering specimens. All the flowers have disappeared for nearly a month.

Believe me | To be your’s very truly | H. M. Wilkinson

I could not find one long plant like those we got earlier.

Sep^r 15. 1874