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

Prof^r Balfour