The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 20/2/62 ¶ My dear Mr Bentham ¶ ¶ The mail, due this month from Europe, has not arrived, so that I have but occasion to adress you on few subjects. I have forwarded under speci...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 54-5. 62.02.20c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-02-20 [62.02.20c]. 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/62-02-20c>, accessed April 29, 2025

MS black-edged; M's sister Bertha died on 7 September 1861.

Melbourne bot. Garden

20/2/62

My dear Mr Bentham

The mail, due this month from Europe, has not arrived, so that I have but occasion to adress you on few subjects. I have forwarded under special care of the Captain pr Great Britain, freight paid, 9 parcels with in a sealed box: vize:

1 fascicle

( 1, Hymenosp. Rhytidosp & 1, & Ixiosp 1 — 1 — 1 1 — 2)

Abbreviated names are , , and .

= 7. Total 9.

The Great Britain left end of January. The Young Australia with 2[8]

8 appears to have been written over either 9 or 7.

RB MSS M44, Notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, lists 28 fascicles sent by Young Australia on 26 December 1861.

fascicles about a month before. I have finished the vol on the Thalamifl of Victoria, 250 pag, 20 plat.

B62.03.03.

—; the work has left me meanwhile not much time in getting collections & notes ready for you; but I feel somewhat freer now and when my annual report is issued

B62.03.01.

and the medical examinations at the University are passed, I can devote my time steadily to my assistantship in your work.

I am desirous to direct your attention to Dryanders Chloris (flor.) Nov. Holl. in Koenigs & Sims annals.

Dryander (1806).

It contains some notes of importance, for instance that on the occurence of Eucal. obliqua in V.D.L. Dryander is however not always correct in the authors he quotes with the names of plants.

I intend to work up the some early day & send you then the whole collection. Could you kindly send me the proof sheets of your Genera? It would be in the instance of important, as we have to accept Blumes Genera

Blume published almost all of his many in Blume (1825-6) or in Blume (1835-48).

with caution & Cambessedes

Cambessedes (1829).

are too few for the present day after the discovery of so much novelty[.] I hope you will kindly bear in mind, that no synonym should be quoted, unless it were established by a diagnosis My manuscripts at Kew has to be used with some caution, as you will observe that my views on some points became altered & the descriptions augmented or corrected.

MSS not found.

I have never seen ripe fruit of . Is it sapindaceaous?

I do not know whether I explained, that since my working up some fascicles of , I received from different parts of Australia additions, not touched upon yet in either the plants of Victoria or the Fragmenta. These I have put along with the species with which I considered them identical, without however having subjected them to a strict examination. You will observe, that the plants of Victoria contain twice the number of Thalamifl. than the flora Tasm., since I reduce Dr Hooker's 130 to 97.

Ever very regardfully

yours

Ferd. Mueller.

By a clerical error in the adress this letter was returned to me. So I forward it again

12/6/62.

Ferd Mueller