The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Bot. Garden, Melbourne ¶ 9. Jan. 1858. ¶ Prof. Alph. de Candolle ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ Having received your friendly letter dated 16. Sept. 1857 ¶ this day, I hasten to assure you, that the manifestations of k...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1858-01-09. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/58-01-09>, accessed April 4, 2025

Bot. Garden, Melbourne

9. Jan. 1858.

Prof. Alph. de Candolle

Sir,

Having received your friendly letter dated 16. Sept. 1857

Letter not found.

this day, I hasten to assure you, that the manifestations of kindness and satisfaction from so great a man as the author of the prodromus

A. P. de Candolle (1823-73). From vol. 8, 1844, following the death of his father in 1841, Alphonse de Candolle edited and wrote many of the entries published in this series.

have been a source of great pleasure to myself.

I fully concurr with you, that the employment of camels and (when the geological feature of the country admits of it) the boring of Artesian wells would greatly facilitate the exploration of the Australian Interior desert.

Not only shall I feel extremly happy to forward to Geneve specimens of plants and copies of scientific publications issued in Melbourne, but in my position as director of this garden I shall be extremly gratified to effect anually an exchange of seed with the bot Garden of Geneve.

Since some years I have been collecting materials for a monograph of ,

Preumably B58.11.01.

for the promotion of which I should be thankful to receive that fascicle of the IX vol. of Mem. Genev., which contains the plates of that genus, furnished by your immortal father.

A. P. de Candolle (1842).

I am delighted to hear, that the famous prodromus is progressing favourably. The elaboration of the order will involve enormous labour. In tropical Australia alone 52 species of this family have been discovered, comprising the genera , , , , , , , n.g., , , , , , , , ,

Beyeria?

, n.g., , , , n.g. allied to , , , , , n.g.

has not been found (APNI, accessed 2 July 2020).

Of all new species and genera a full msc. account has been forwarded to Sir W. Hooker.

Such excellent men as Prof. Meisner & Mr Bentham no doubt will decor also the new volumes of the prodromus with their labours. I ventured to offer myself a humble contribution, supplementing Meisner , the msc being forwarded to Sir Will. Hooker.

MS not found. The material would have been too late to be included in the 'Addenda and corrigenda' to Meisner (1856), which were issed in late November 1857 (TL2). Hooker could not have published it in his journal, which had ceased publication with vol. 9 (see note of the editor, dated 1 December 1857, Hooker’s journal of botany and Kew Garden miscellany, vol. 9, pp. 383-4). When Hooker closed his journal, there were numerous manuscripts from M that remained unpublished (see Darragh & Lucas (2015)) and it is not known whether M published all or part of this particular manuscript elsewhere.

I enclose a fragment of Meisn (G. thyrsantha

G. thyrsoides?

mihi in coll. distrib) from the desert between the Murray River & St. Vincents Gulf, which even if not different from the West Austr. plant, will still be interesting as having a much wider range, than in proteaceae is usual.

I beg also to offer on this occasion a fragment of , a very rare plant, which may be welcome for the .

I am astonished and regret extremly that after all the expenses for the charts & letters according to the regulations were prepaid by myself in Sydney, still so heavy an expense should have been incurred by them. I will not fail in sending in future any communication either directly to Mr Pamplin or Sir W. Hooker.

Having been fortunate enough to discover on the Upper Victoria River lat 18° S a new and very distinct annual Josephina (J. Eugeniae) of which I forwarded through Sir W. Hooker a drawing and description to His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, I should feel obliged to have from Prof Decaisne, who took some interest in the genus Josephinia, whether his majesty deemed my notes perhaps worthy of being committed to a French journal. Your admirable Géographie botanique raisonnée

A. de Candolle (1855).

has given me much valuable information.

With the expression of my greatest veneration for you I conclude, Sir, these lines as your most attached

Ferd. Mueller.

. n. sp.

glabrum, inerme, ramis crassis teretibus vix patentibus indistincte striatis, nascentibus copiose foliatis, foliis e latiore basi lineari-subulatis recurvo-patentibus, adultis deltoideis acuminatis appressis, floribus solitariis sessilibus pluribractetis spicas terminales vel infra-apicales saepe elongatas constituentibus, bracteis fuscis scariosis imbricatis.

Kangaroo Island.

Species singularis. Folia 1''' saepe excedentia. Spicae e long inquo eas Polygonorum simulantes.

Choretri species genuinas nunc quinque cognovimus: Ch. glomeratum a litore occidentali usque ad sinum St. Vincents Gulf extendentem, Ch. chrysanthum inter fluvum Murray & sinum St. Vincent restrictum, Ch. lateriflorum a terra Gipps land ad sinum Moreton Bay occurrentem, immo alpium partis satis elevatas occupantem, denique C. spicatum & sequentem: , n. sp., glabrum, aphyllum, ramosissimum, ramulis teretiusculis rigidis spinescentibus prominenter striatis parum patentibus, pedunculis lateralibus bracteas longitudine subaequantibus 1-3 floris, bracteis subtilissime ciliolatis fere in cupulam concretis.

Port Lincoln. C. Wilhelmi, ubicum Santalo acuminato (Fusano acuminato R. Br) promiscue crescit —

& Ch. spicatum ad s transtuli.

See B58.03.01, p. 21 for published version of these descriptions.