From Leicester Darwall   2 April 1831

Dear Sir

The favourable reception which you gave to my last communication induces me to send you a list of some of the plants growing in this neighbourhood. The great brevity is owing to the short time of my residence here, and that time not the most suitable for botanical research. It may perhaps appear unnecessary to send the names of so few, but I feared lest specimens of some now in flower might be desirable, which, if I waited much longer, I could not obtain. This neighbourhood seems very favourable for plants– Goring itself being situated on the Thames, embosomed in chalk hills and surrounded by extensive beech woods – and I somewhat regret the cursory manner, in which owing to my short stay here, I shall be compelled to investigate it. I should be glad to know whether it will be agreeable to you that I continue to collect specimens, if so it will give me much pleasure to do it, as it will my friend R. Lowe, who is with me here–

Believe me to remain | yours much obliged | Leicester Darwall

Scirpus lacustris Asperula odorata Galeobdolon luteum Luciola pilosa L. sylvatica Viola hirta Scrophularia nodosa Viscum album Lamium amplexicaule Taxus baccata Juniperus communis Clematis vitalba Saponaria officinalis Rosa rubiginosa intybus Ruscus aculeatus Linaria repens Ornithogalum pyrenaicum (?) Asplenium Ruta muraria A.adiantum nigrum

*The chief cause of my doubts respecting this plant [Ornithogalum pyrenaicum in the list], is time of its flowering – I saw it first on the 28 ^th of last month– I look forward to large discoveries among the Orchideae, – several are mentioned in the Eng.Fl. as growing in the vicinity.