The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [August 1864 or later] ¶ Notes for Mr Bentham ¶ ¶ Myriophyllum latifolium has the (emersed) leaves sometimes quaternate. Leichhardt found it at Archers lagoon. ¶ ¶ Ceratophyllum demersum is mentione...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 11. 64.08.00a

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1864-08 [64.08.00a]. 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/64-08-00a>, accessed April 19, 2025

MS annotation: 'Vol ii', i.e. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 2.

[August 1864 or later]

editorial addition. The note is dated to August 1864 or later, since it was in August 1864 that the Leguminosae returned from Kew were received in Melbourne. See M to W. Hooker, 25 August 1864 (in this edition as 64-08-25d), to which this note may have been an enclosure.

Notes for Mr Bentham

has the (emersed) leaves sometimes quaternate. Leichhardt found it at Archers lagoon.

Qld.

is mentioned by Dr Hooker as a Tasmanian plant fl. Tasm II, 362

J. Hooker (1860).

It is an enigma to me, why the specimens returned from Kew always show so many larvae of insects. It was particularly evident in the e recently returned, and which I thought were perfectly free of insects when forwarded.