The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 27/2/70. ¶ ¶ Since I had the pleasure of last writing to you, dear Mr Bentham, I have examined a lot of various monocotyledonous plants. Libertia must be returned to Sisyrinchi...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 423-4. 70.02 27

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1870-02-27. 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/70-02-27>, accessed September 11, 2025

Melbourne bot Garden

27/2/70.

Since I had the pleasure of last writing to you, dear Mr Bentham, I have examined a lot of various monocotyledonous plants. Libertia must be returned to Sisyrinchium, and the N.Z. L. micrantha be combined with ( J Hook.) I have sent ample notes to the press, which will give you the results of my investigations in detail. The seeds of the S. American Sisyr. lacustre

Not in IPNI (accessed 4 January 2020).

are remarkable. I have looked carefully over my Austral material and must reduce all the species to 3, namely S. cyaneum Ldl, S. paniculatum Br (scarcely distinct from S. ixioides Forst) and S. pulchellum, Br (to which S. tricoccum from Valdi[v]ia

Southern Chile. The specimens M used to make this new combination were part of a collection from R. A. Phillippi (B73.08.01, p. 92.)

is closely allied.

seems identical with A racemosus, as far as I can see, but your material will be better than mine for comparison.

is found at Rockingham's Bay. I have put the 6 large parcels of Australian into order & hope to work these out in the course of the few next months

B73.08.01, pp. 64-102.

together with many .

M's main discussion of grasses was in B73.11, pp. 101-24, continued in B73.12, pp. 125-40.

Ehrharta I have reexamined. There is nothing to separate from it and . Notes on these plants are sent also to print for the 54 number of the fragmenta.

B70.04.01, where most of the species mentioned above are discussed, but some are in B70.01.01.

The new lot of plants from Lord Howe's Island has not arrived yet. Our common Eastern and Northern Dioscorea will probably prove to be identical with D. Japonica.

may be only a few flowered variety of B. disticha. is amply naturalized at K.G. Sound.

King George Sound, WA.

, cultivated at Kew, is certainly a . I have examined the ripe fruit carefully.

I am glad to learn from your last letter,

G. Bentham to M, 24 December 1869 (in this edition as 69-12-24a). No specific health problem is mentioned, but see G. Bentham to M, 25 November 1869, in which Bentham mentioned recovering from sciatica, not rheumatism.

that you fully recovered from the attack of Rheumatism and I trust you will guard against relaps[e]s. It is pleasing also that the work for the 5th volume

Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5.

goes on so briskly. I hope to have enough material for the 6th ready to keep you going on continuously. It seems to me a great pity to retain so poor a genus as , now since so many transits to are found.

Bentham's conclusions about maintaining Trichium are mentioned in G. Bentham to M, 24 December 1869 (in this edition as 69-12-24a).

With best regards

Ferd. von Mueller

I have finished also the . The seven s must be reduced to two (7 = 2!), the 13 s to 4 or 5. I have given the name to RBr's , as really no objection to R. & G. Forsters genus can be taken, as it proved not a species of . Assuredly RBr. had genera enough of his own, without encroaching on the few of Forsters and should have reestablished R & G Forsters , when he formed his .

See B73.08.01, pp 85-9.