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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 147. 74.06.12Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1874-06-12. 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/74-06-12>, accessed September 11, 2025
Melbourne
12/6/74.
With the steamship "
Northumberland
" a
large
case with Monocotyledoneae is at last despatched to you last week, dear Mr Bentham,
as usual under Dr Hooker's care. The contents are:
fasc
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Ripogonum
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1
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Smilax
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1
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Commelynaceae
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1
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Anguillaria
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1
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Bartlingia (Laxmannia Br)
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1
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Milanthaceae partim
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1
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Cordyline & Dracaena
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1
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Eustrephus et Geitonoplesium
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1
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Sowerbeae, Stawellia,
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Hodgsoniala, Johnsonia, Allonia
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Arnocrinum —
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1
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Herpolirion, Stypandra & Agrostocrinum
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1
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Tricoryne
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1
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Astelia & Milligania
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1
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Caesia
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1
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Thysanotus
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1
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Dianella
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4
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Borya
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1
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Pontederiaceae
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1
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Arthropodium & Bulbine
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1
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Blandfordia, Drymophila & Asparagus
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1
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Liliaceae suppl.
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2
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Xanthorrhoea
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1
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Total
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25
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Besides 8 parcels of Xanthorrhoeae, & 1 of Dasypogon.
I added also a Parcel of plants from Lord Howe's Island, (2 sets) from Fullagars Expedition;
please ask Dr Hooker, if he could afford to purchase them for any price he thinks
fit, as the collector is in very poor circumstances.
1
On Fullagar’s expedition to Lord Howe Island, see George (2009), p. 382. One set of the plants he collected (embracing 91 species) was purchased by Kew; see G. Bentham to M, 9 September 1874 (in this edition as 74-09-09a).
I shall soon send an other case. The genus Panicum I revised lately;
so far as Australia is concerned. I verely believe that the species in Steudels
work must be reduced ⅔ or ¾
2
B74.07.01, pp. 189-200.
3
Steudel (1855), vol. 1.
Altho there are many additions to R Browns in my collections, still after due reduction
I shall not likely be able to bring the whole up to the original number of R Brown's
4
R. Brown (1810) treated groups contained in this and the subsequent shipment of
Panicum.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
I was was invited also to Florence,
but it was impossible under existing circumstances to leave here. Helpless as I am
even in manual work to a large extent, I cannot send any of my new plants now to Kew;
the selecting would involve many weeks work, but as I intend to issue a supplemental
volume I will then successively put up also specimens of all new plants for Kew next
year.
5
The International Horticultural Exhibition, May 1874. See M to J. Francis, 12 February 1874, M to F. Parlatore, 24 February 1874, G. Bentham to M, 8 April 1874 and G. Bentham to M, 18 October 1874 (in this edition as 74-10-18c).
6
See G. Bentham to M, 8 April 1874.
Agrostocrinum
Allania
Anguillaria
Arthropodium
Asparagus
Astelia
Arnocrinum
Bartlingia
Blandfordia
Borya
Bulbine
Commelynaceae
Cordyline
Caesia
Dasypogon.
Dianella
Dracaena
Drymophila
Eustrephus
Geitonoplesium
Herpolirion
Hodgsoniola
Johnsonia
Laxmannia
Liliaceae
Melanthaceae
Milligania
Monocotyledoneae
Panicum
Pontederiaceae
Ripogonum
Smilax
Sowerbaea
Stawellia
Stypandra
Thysanotus
Tricoryne
Xanthorrhoea