The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne ¶ bot Garden ¶ 28/2/72 ¶ ¶ The next consignment will go to you, dear Mr Bentham, by the steamer Northumberland in the middle of March and will reach you therefore probably in May. If I even...

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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871 - 81, f. 34. 72.02.28

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1872-02-28. 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/72-02-28>, accessed September 11, 2025

Melbourne

bot Garden

28/2/72

The next consignment will go to you, dear Mr Bentham, by the steamer Northumberland in the middle of March and will reach you therefore probably in May. If I even sent this consignment now by a clipper, it would not come earlier, whereas thus I gain time to hear from you by the next mail in answer to several questions concerning the material required by you for volume 6.

The consignment will include supplements of ,

, , &c. Among the plants is a new , a new , a new , a near to one from Java of the section and several other ,

New species in these genera were described as follows: calophleba (B72.03.01, p. 11), congesta (B72.03.01, p. 9). Others were not new species but were new records for Australia: for example moroides for which locality data are given in B74.10.01, p. 248.

not in my former collection. I hope you will keep up and in their widest sense. In the Kew conservatories and Museum you will be able to judge, whether any distinction between and can be kept up. I think not; but my material from America is here for comparison very imperfect. As regards I think it has been too far broken up into new genera, just like , to which (in the appendix to the Report of our Acclim Society)

B71.06.02.

I have brought back and

Possibly a few more s exist as good species, than those admitted by me into the fragmenta. I have had no good opportunity to study them in a living state. Several of the species from W. Austr and N.S. Wales, which I had in the garden were destroyed during the intrusion on my horticultural administration. At Adelaide only 2 species occur, near Melbourne only 3. — Miquel has however the e as much over-rated as Parlatore the s.

Miquel (1868); Parlatore (1868), in which for see pp. 445-52.

The case contains also some supplemental Fungi for Berkeley.

In addition to the material mentioned, the case also included a consignment of 'algae for Dickie' (Notebook recording despatch of plants for Flora Australiensis, RB, MSS M44, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne). Presumably George Dickie of Aberdeen.

If the Rev Gentleman could soon finish them and return me a set for comparison, it will be a boon, as the total absense of fungi in the Australian division of my Museum hinders all studies here and discontentedness may thus arise by the public at any time. Everyone is eager to find here fault. I shall be quite willing to remit monetary means to Berkeley out of my private purse, if that will expedite the examination.

Your very regardful

Ferd. von Mueller.

is now of course .

The postscript is written in the margin.

The following text, from RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70, f. 39, is added here as it is an expansion of the marginal footnote. The footnote could not be a response to G. Bentham to M, 25 January 1872 (in this edition as 72-01-25a), in which Bentham commented 'I am obliged to adopt the name of for ', since that letter is unlikely to have reached M before mid-March. In M to J. Hooker, 10 October 1869, M reported that he had seen J. Hooker (1865-1904), vol. 95, tab. 5787 (published 1869) where the priority of was pointed out; he published the correction in B72.03.01, p. 9.

The seniority of over was not known to me, until I saw page 5787 of the illustrations of the Bot. Magazine. Of course the generic name of my three Australian species must now be changed. Dr Hooker, when reestablishing , quite overlooked, that I had shown the occurrence of the genus in Australia already early in 1865.