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RBG Kew, London, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81. f. 314. 81.08.04

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1881-08-04. 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/81-08-04>, accessed September 11, 2025

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MS annotation by Hooker: [from] [Muller] with o[ne] seed of Helicia praealta quite dead. (to Museum) Thanked Septr 27/81. Letter not found, but see J. Hooker to M, 25 September 1881 .
4/8/81.
As you probably now, dear Sir Joseph, are passing the sheets of the
Monocotyledoneae

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Bentham & Hooker (1862–83).
through the press, it may be well to mention to you, that the Nipa, which has been found on two places in Queensland is in no way different from N. fruticans though Mr Bailey gave it a new name.
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MS annotation by Hooker in margin adjacent to this paragraph : noted.
M discussed
Nipa fruticans

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in B81.08.03, p. 127 where he credited Bailey with sending him specimens collected by Neame, but did not mention any new name Bailey had coined. Bailey did not publish until much later (Bailey (1889a)) a description of N. fruticans var neameana that he claimed to have recognised in 1881 'if not as a fresh species, as a marked form of the already known species'.
I hope, that you admit no petals in Orchids,
Irideae

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,
Liliaceae

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&c; for if you do, then unavoidably they must also be acknowledged in
Junceae

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,
Resticaeae

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&c
Regardfully yr
Ferd von Mueller