The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 26/6/66 ¶ ¶ I have enclosed, dear Mr Bentham, in the letter for Dr Hooker ¶ ripe fruit (berries) of Abrophyllum. The ¶ enormous ¶ extrawork of the season kept me strictly to the work of my Directo...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 215-16. 66.06.26a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-06-26 [66.06.26a]. 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/66-06-26a>, accessed April 21, 2025

26/6/66

I have enclosed, dear Mr Bentham, in the letter for Dr Hooker

M to J. Hooker, 26 June 1866.

ripe fruit (berries) of . The enormous extrawork of the season kept me strictly to the work of my Directorate since some months & so, I regret, I could not redeem my promise to send off the gnaphaloid genera;

See M to G. Bentham, 26 May 1866 (in this edition as 66-05-26b).

all other I did send & now by the Dover Castle I send a large lot of additions. I had not the least idea that your progress would be one of such celerity in working on , since so many genera are to be remodelled; and I can not surpress some regret, that the did not stand over until all the genera were put into your & Dr Hookers work. I am convinced you would then have seen, that as a genus is untenable . I have examined a vast number of American s & others from Asia & Europe & am perfectly persuaded, did accidentally any or get among them, no botanist would for a moment doubt he had an before him. Pardon me for expressing myself on this question freely, because would it not be a pity, by adopting the genus , after I reduced it,

B65.10.04. See also B65.11.01.

to load the synonymy with half a hundred unnecessary names?

The first seven proof-sheets I received with delight. I have little to alter, after a glance, reserving for moments of future leisure further remarks. The came back this day & I am glad along with them the long missing .

M first asked about the fate of the collection of (sent to Kew on 24 April 1862) in M to W. Hooker, 24 June 1865.

You will get by the Dover Castle Drummonds , part of which were never sent to Europe. Unfortunately they suffered more from the small brown beetle than any other portion of his collection.

I have looked only over part of the Eucalyptus specimens since they came back, being so much pressed with gardenwork I am however quite convinced that you confused some specimens of E. rostrata & E. viminalis. The proof of Eucalyptus will be useful for determining timber specimens for the exhibition The identification of the Mahogany as E. marginata is most interesting. is I believe nowhere described, but the diagnosis of E. largiflorens

B55.13.05, p. 34.

was published. I do not think the Mount Elliot specimens belong to it, they partain of the section .

Leiopholeae?

E. cinerea must be a var of E. pulverulenta

Additional Notes on Loranthaceae

Roper's River & near Mount Mueller near Termination Lake

Rockhampton Thozet.

You will have kindly remembered that I gave a list of in the Burdekin Essay.

B60.13.12

It was very generous of you to spare for the library of this department the many valuable volumes. As some are bearing the signatures of illustrious men their books will be kept with special piety.

Bentham was not the donor of these volumes: see G. Bentham to M, 25 September 1866. See also M to J. Hooker, 26 June 1866.

The gnaphaloideae will now be sent off by one of the next Clippers.

your regardful

Ferd. Mueller

The sentence that follows, that is presented here as a postscript, is on a separate sheet filed at RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 16. It is typical of the notes that M sent to Bentham while they were working on Flora australiensis.

The name is ill applicable; moreover no diagnosis is published of the species as such, though a very brief remark occurs in reference to the character of the plant in Mitch. Trop. Austral

Mitchell (1848). p. 390. Bentham (1863-78), vo. 3, p. 214 cites Cunningham's herbarium name, and mentions Mitchell (1848).