Have you the volume published by Lowe on Madeira?
If so and if any varieties are marked I should much like to see it, to see if I can make out anything about habitats of vars.

in so small an area--a point on which I have become very curious.

I fear there is no chance of your possessing Forbes and Hancock "British Shells," a grand work, which I much wish to tabulate.
Very many thanks for seed of Adlumia cirrhosa, which I will carefully observe.

My notice in the G.Ch.on Kidney Beans (54.1 "On the Agency of Bees in the Fertilisation of Papilionaceous Flowers" ("Gardeners' Chronicle," 1857, page 725).) has brought me a curious letter from an intelligent gardener, with a most remarkable lot of beans, crossed in a marvellous manner IN THE FIRST GENERATION, like the peas sent to you by Berkeley and like those experimentalised on by Gartner and by Wiegmann.
It is a very odd case; I shall sow these seeds and see what comes up.
How very odd that pollen of one form should affect the outer coats and size of the bean produced by pure species!...
LETTER 55.

TO J.D.HOOKER.