The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. ¶ MEMORANDUM. ¶ Subject. ¶ Note on ferns for Baron von Mueller ¶ Grammitis ¶ Swartzs original species of Grammitis in Schrad. Journ. 1801 p 17 ¶ are linearis, marginella, lanceo...

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William Thiselton-Dyer to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1888-11-14 [88.11.14b]. 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/88-11-14b>, accessed September 11, 2025

The memorandum is responding to M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 October 1888 (in this edition as 88-10-03a). Thiseleton-Dyer referred M's letter to John Baker, and this text is Baker's response to M's comments on fern classification and nomenclature. The annotations on M's letter include 'And 14.11.88' . The present item was evidently an enclosure to the letter that Thiselton- Dyer sent, the main text of which has not been found.

ROYAL GARDENS, KEW.

MEMORANDUM.

Subject. Note on ferns for Baron von Mueller

Grammitis Swartzs original species of Grammitis in Schrad. Journ. 1801 p 17

Swartz (1801).

are linearis, marginella, lanceolata, serrulata, graminoides & myosuroides, we put only one of these into . My own idea would be maintain Grammitis as a subgenus of for the free veined species with oblong sori.

Annotation in a different hand: lineolis sparsisrectis = would not a great many s.

Putting together & it seems to me would involve & . I should like to make a separate group of the Indusiate genera in which the indusium is merely the modified edge of the lamina & to put them in between the truly indusiate & strictly non-indusiate genera. The classification of Synopsis Filicum

W. Hooker & Baker (1865-8).

was fixed before I had anything to do with it.

R.Br I have little doubt of this being P. nigrescens Blume, but have seen no authenticated specimen.

J G. Baker

Kew Nov. 13 1888.