The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 25/4/80. ¶ ¶ In casting a glance over your & Mr Benthams admirable volume III, p. I, ¶ dear Sir Joseph, I notice a few omissions, to which you may allow me to draw attention. I had some noted in for...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1880-04-25. 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/80-04-25>, accessed September 11, 2025

MS annotation by Hooker: 'And'; see J. Hooker to M, 10 June 1880.

25/4/80.

In casting a glance over your & Mr Benthams admirable volume III, p. I,

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).

dear Sir Joseph, I notice a few omissions, to which you may allow me to draw attention. I had some noted in former volumes & ventured to submit the memoranda at least in part to you. occurs at Rockinghams Bay

Qld.

& I had placed it also near , but had no flowers.

M described australiana in B77.10.02, p. 114, noting that male flowers were unknown. is treated on p. 341 of Part I of volume 3 of Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), where the locality of its six species is given as 'omnes Novo-Caledonicae' [all New Caledonia]. There is an interleaved copy of this part at RBG Kew, with an annotation on the blank page opposite the entry 'Rockingham Bay. Mueller in litt 25/4/80'. There are similar entries incorporating the information in this letter for (op. p. 206), (op. p. 147); (op. p. 88), which also incorporates information from M. to J. Hooker, 10 August 1880; Muehlenbeckia (p. 102) where (Meissn.) has been struck through and 'F. Muell.' added by J. Hooker in the margin.

I sent the fruit-specimen to you (now many years ago) & you said, that the same genus occurred in Polynesia, but thought it stood near .

Letters not found.

— has quite the habit of a . The anthers of occur also in (Gyrocarpus). — seems to me to be a Halorageous plant, as stated by me in print some years ago.

B76.13.03, p. 31.

occur for extratropical NZ. & Chath-islands.

This paragraph is marked with a line and an annotation that is partially obscured by binding: '[vix extra tropicos]'. Hooker takes up this point in his reply.

I am not aware, that Meissner ever saw (so named by me in the Bot. Mag);

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 3, part 1, p. 102 discuss 'M. platyclada Meissn', citing Botanical magazine, vol. 89, 1863, t. 5382, as Coccoloba platyclada . The text accompanying the plate attributes the specimen figured to M as collector, and the name also to M, but in synonomy, from M's earliest description as Polygonum platycladum in B57.09.04, p. 73. M discusses the generic relationships in M to W. Hooker, 23 January 1863.

I corresponded with him to his lamented death. Do you now distinguish only one Telopea? I will send you a specimen of . (Hill sent it as a to me)

There are double vertical lines in the central and right margins adjacent to this sentence. M must have misread the text on p. 104 which states 'Species 2. Australiensis' citing Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, p. 234. Bentham & Hooker go on to compare the genus with Embothrio (sic), and asking whether E. Wickhami F. Muell., which was unknown to them ('nobis ignotam') is intermediate. See B74.04.01, p. 164.

I should have liked the name Saxono-Gothaea used in my report in 1858 &c substituted for Saxe-Gothaea. seems still to me a good genus.

Saxegothea is treated on p. 434; is discussed and rejected as a distinct genus on p. 181, referring to M's discussion in B71.07.01, p. 131.

Hoping that you deem my frankness not intrusive, & trusting that your great work will come to speedy & glorious conclusion with a full supplement, I remain

your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller.

Do you like Raddlikofers split up genera of .

Radlkofer (1875), where the genus is split into many sections; Radlkofer (1879).

I do not! the splitting process is no gain & only encumbers memory.