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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 258. 88.10.03a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1888-10-03 [88.10.03a]. 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/88-10-03a>, accessed September 11, 2025

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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 12. Nov. 88. Annotated in pencil by Thiseleton-Dyer: Mr Baker , and [by Thiselton-Dyer?] And 14.11.88 . See W. Thiselton-Dyer to M, 14 November 1888 (in this edition as 88-11-14b).
3/10/88.
Best thanks, dear Mr Dyer, for the names-list of N. Guin. plants so zealously worked out by Mr Baker.
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See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 6 July 1888. List not found.
When I have calmed down after the Exhib. Duties, Medical Congress &c,
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Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888-9; Intercolonial Medical Congress, Melbourne, January 1889. M was president of the Therapeutics section at the latter.
I hope to resume the issue of the "Papuan Plants",
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B90.05.01; this was the last part to be published under the series title Descriptive notes on Papuan plants, although galley proofs of a later part exist in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
when the list can be turned to full account. Speaking of ferns,
Gleichenia dicarpa

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would doubtless be quite hardy at Kew as it is high-alpine here. At all events you might let the Rev D. Landsborough try it at Arran.
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See Gardeners' chronicle, 24 November 1883, p. 668, for a report of the meeting of the Edinburgh Botanical Society where Landsborough discussed the 'growth of half-hardy plants in the east coast of Arran'.
When trusted out, it ought to be placed on any little irrigation-channel, as it lines here the alpine Rivulets, together with
Lomaria alpina

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. When Mr Baker will bring out a new Edit of the Synopsis filicum,
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The second and last edition of Hooker & Baker (1865-8) was published in 1874 and reissued in 1883 (TL2).
could he be induced to place
Cheilanthes

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next to Notochlaena and to abolish
Gymnogramme

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by the restoration of
Grammitis

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? for
Notochlaena vellea

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is a priority of 11 years over N. lanuginosa,
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In B89.12.03, p. 231, M treated Notochlaena and Notholaena as orthograhic variants, and as synonyms of the earlier
Cheilanthes

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.
and Aiton published his A. velleum
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Acrostichum velleum.
already in the first edition of the Hort. Kewensis. Has never yet a specimen of
Polypodium membranifolium

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RBr turned up?
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.
I have changed
Dicksonia davallioides

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into
Davallia dicksonioides

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; thus it fits much better into my "Key."
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B88.11.02; b ut in B89.12.03, p. 231, M retained Dicksonia davalloides .