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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 214. 66.05.26b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-05-26 [66.05.26b]. 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/66-05-26b>, accessed April 21, 2025

26/5/66
The dreadful season of rainlessness, dear Mr Bentham, made for the time any botanical work an impossibility. The drought at last is broken now & though severe winter work still presses on me & both the intercolonial Exhibition
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Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne, 1866-7.
& the French Exhibition
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Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867.
will require my attention as Commissioner I hope to absolve the gnaphaloideae in a few months; all other
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are sent to you & are certain to keep you engaged for many months. I shall send the
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in two instalments, so that no delay to you arises. I have never fancied multiplicity of genera; so I do not think Miquels & Seemanns Aralian genera can be all adopted.
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Seemann’s 'Revision of the Natural Order Hederaceae' was originally published in parts in each of the first six volumes of the Journal of botany, British and Foreign, (1864-8) which he edited, and collected as Seemann (1868); Miquel's Araliaceae were published in a number of places, and were upheld by Seemann.
Panax is a very good genus as regarded before & how
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is to be excluded I cannot well see, for occasionally 5-petaled flowers occur.
The boxes with Eucalypti reached me safely. I rejoyce seeing how much care you bestowed on the genus. I shall look forward to the printing of the
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&c with great pleasure
Your regardful
Ferd Mueller
What is the leguminous, the "Codeso" of Teneriffe? I see such genus not mentioned in your generic work.
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Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).
If it is tenable it requires alteration of name (perhaps
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) in consequence of Cunninghams genus
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Endlicher (1837a) considered that Cunningham's MS genus Codonocarpus was distinct from W. Hooker's Gyrostemon, and provided a description in a footnote.
of Phytolacceae.