The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ London ¶ Jany 10 /77 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have to thank you for your note and am glad to hear that the Gramineae are on their way. The Shannon is due I believe in the course o...

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Abildgaardhia
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George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-01-10. 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/77-01-10>, accessed September 11, 2025

MS annotation by M: 'Answ 13/3/77. F.v.M.'.

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.

London

Jany 10 /77

My dear Sir

I have to thank you for your note and am glad to hear that the are on their way. The Shannon is due I believe in the course of next month I trust the Ferns will soon follow

See M to G. Bentham, 28 November 1876.

Since your came I have been steadily at work at them but I do not get on so fast as I expected Although I do not think it necessary to verify still less to copy without verifying the non-Australian synonymy of Kunth and Boeckeler still I am obliged to much extra Australian research in order to give the general range of Australian species many of which are much confused and Linnaeus's as well as Brown's species

In R. Brown (1810), pp. 212-43.

have been often mistaken — I have now finished (including ) with 64 species, 4 species 12 sp. including 22 sp. and am far advanced in Fimbristylis in which besides

Abildgaardia?

I include (with A. Gray)

Browns remains endemic and monotypic. I always find 6 filaments though the anthers of 3 are very deciduous and perhaps sometimes abortive from the first. The style is also very particular. The plant has been described by Boeckeler as — he has overlooked the stamens and Brown does not mention them he probably did not feel certain about them and did not like to commit himself — The Mauritius Ceylon and Chinese species are very different from the Australian one in structure and must either make a genus of themselves or a section of Fimbristylis — but perhaps nearing to . That however I leave for Indian botanists to work up.

Could you kindly let me have the last number with the title page and Index of vol VIII. of your Fragmenta

B74.13.01 includes Additamenta as well as the index.

which I never have had and which is wanting to complete my copy of the volume

I hope next month to announce to you the dispatch of a return box of . I trust you received the copy of Gen. Pl.

Genera plantarum, i.e., Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).

vol. ii. part ii which I sent in one of the boxes last summer

Ever yours truly

George Bentham

Baron Ferd v. Mueller