The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 1/6/83 ¶ ¶ I was greatly delighted, dear Sir Joseph, to receive by last mail the finishing part of your and Bentham's opus magnum, ¶ and beg both of you to be felicitated on the glorious conclusion ...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, ff. 66-8. 83.06.01

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1883-06-01. 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/83-06-01>, accessed September 11, 2025

1/6/83

I was greatly delighted, dear Sir Joseph, to receive by last mail the finishing part of your and Bentham's opus magnum,

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).

and beg both of you to be felicitated on the glorious conclusion of such a grand and labourious undertaking. The whole botanic world will benefit from these three great volumes for all times, and I hope you and your venerable collaborator will place all of us under still deeper obligation by presenting us hereafter with a supplemental volume, especially as the appeared already 20 years ago. Perhaps then, for facility's sake, you will be so good to give us one universal Index also

universal Index is marked in the margin with double lines.

Evascular plants and ferns are mostly as regards genera now also fairly defined. Could therefore the leading Cryptogamists of Europe unite to give us the genera of also in conformity with your work?

In glancing over vol. III p. II I made a few hurried notes which I just copy, as I may not live very long, and so it will be best to forward them at once, without however any wish of mine to be intrusive. I subscribed to the genera for my private library, so got from Dulau the concluding part also, the presentation copy being placed in the departmental library with best thanks.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Of I got at last one single male flower, which proves it truely congeneric! I was the first to transfer the genus to .

, , , , have all one genuine Australian species, 4, 4. — and I have shown to occur in Samoa!

B81.10.04, p. 172; p. 171.

has one species in the New Hebrides. See Campbell’s little work.

B73.13.01; M described novo-ebudica on p. 20 of this work.

What has become of the two Australian species of ? Are they now placed in ?

What … Anthericium? is marked in the margin with a line.

like all other alpine Australian plants occurs on the Mt Kosciusko Range in N.S. Wales.

includes the according to Drude, occurs therefore far down in Argentina. See the Sydney [&] German editions of my "select plants".

B81.13.10, B83.13.06.

Lodicea

Lodoicea?

differs from in its marvellous footing !

MS annotation by Thiselton-Dyer by ' … footing!: ' nonsense .'

and become extratropical in Australia

occurs in New Guinea

is a true Cymodocea, as you will see in the Census.

B82.13.06.

Unfortunately I matched originally the fruit (loose drifted ashore) of your with it;

Hooker described australis in J. Hooker (1860), vol. 2, p. 43.

but later I got once the small fruits of the true C. zosterifolia; it is burried in the leafsheets thus easily overlooked; it is quite normal for Cymodocea.

occurs in S. Austr, Vict. and N.S.W.

Cymodocea isoetifolia?

occurs as far S. as Champion Bay (extratropical)

described by Forsters. — , indig. in Tasm, as correctly stated already by RBr.

has a wide range through extratropic Australia

is far extratropical in the Murray-region. — tropical [also]

is a true (vide Census)

, tropic Australia

part 1 of vol. III

is a good genus; the testa differs much from that of any &c

. It was unfortunate that Lindley did not call it Saxonogothaea. Prince Albert as a classic scholar must have felt this.

Prince Albert … this. has been annotated with an exclamation mark.

received its name from me.

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 B58.13.02, p. 73. M discusses the generic relationships in M to W. Hooker, 23 January 1861.

has quite the habit and appearance of an arboreous

The operculate anthers of occur also in Gyrocarpus.

extend to N.Z.

seems to me quite distinct

. I have acorns of 2 New Guinea species

is represented in Queensland by a genuine species

one species transgressing the equator in the [Sunda] islands.

, leaves deciduous.