Lacock Abbey,
Chippenham.
April 25. 1868
My Dear Sir
I request your acceptance of some seeds of a very curious new species of Moræa – I rather think that I have mentioned it to you in conversation. As soon as the flower withers, a shoot proceeds from beneath the flower (from the top of the flower stalk) like a strawberry runner, filiform and covered with minute scales, which attains in a few weeks the great length of five feet. For this reason I have called it Moræa prolongata. It grows easily from seed. I think that no similar example has been described of a viviparous stem in the family of Iridaceæ<.>
Yours truly
H. F. Talbot
Profr Balfour
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