The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot.& zool Garden ¶ 14 Febr 1859. ¶ My dear Dr Hooker. ¶ ¶ Having received from my Colonial bookseller lately No 7 of your much admired Tasm. Flor, ¶ I continue as on former occasions to o...

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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70, un-numbered folio after f. 44. 59.02.14a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1859-02-14 [59.02.14a]. 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//letters/1850-9/1859/59-02-14a-final.odt>, accessed May 7, 2026

Melbourne bot.& zool Garden

14 Febr 1859.

My dear Dr Hooker.

Having received from my Colonial bookseller lately No 7 of your much admired Tasm. Flor,

J. Hooker (1860); fascicle 7 was published on 3 September 1858 (TL2).

I continue as on former occasions to offer a few remarks, which may be welcome for the supplement which now doubt you will append to the last fascicle. = mihi

mihi: 'used after a name to indicate the author's responsibility for it'; Stearn (1992) p. 448.

Fragmenta N. 4.

B59.02.03, p. 89.

It has green not yellow sepals. I have established a [remarkable] genus of Portulaceae with septifragal dehiscence as Gunnia from a little sprick in Mr Babbages collection west of Lake Torrens.

MS sentence marked by ✓ in left margin.

The report on it will be ready by next mail and be sent to you. The coll. contains also a new genus of ( ) & of ( ) and (ten) new sp. of which [seven] e are truly superb.

In B59.10.02, M erected Gunnia (G. septifraga), p. 9, (B. dipterocarpa), p. 21, (K. suaedifolia), p. 13, and described behrii, E. bignoniflora, E. brownii, E. crassifolia, E. duttonii, E. goodwinii, E. longifolia, E. maculata, E. paisleyi, E. polyclada, pp. 16-18, as well as numerous other species.

To Mr Hill we owe the discovery of a second spec. of Anopterus (A. macrosper[ma] mihi) from Mt. Linsay,

Lindesay? The locality was given as 'Lindsay' in B59.04.01, although the specimen at Kew Herbarium (K000739768) has M's label giving the locality as 'Mount Linsay".

[5]000'; back of Moreton Bay. I enclose a fragment.

This is a manuscript name (K 739768); Anopterus macleayana was described in B59.04.01, p. 43, with the locality fitting the account in this letter. See notes to M to A. Gray, 10 February 1859 (in this edition as 59-02-10a).

grows in V.DL. I have it from near Launceston; no doubt it is common.

My is a true Gahnia, with long filaments which retain the seeds forming a number of little [pendels], which gives a curious look to the plant. It grows also in S. Australia near Mt Lofty, but is altogether a very local plant.

not in IPNI. MS sentence marked by ✓ in left margin.

Is a species? & Agr. Billardieri flow together by intermediate forms.

MS sentence marked by ✓ in left margin.

& H. unilaterale are decidedly

varieties of each other.

MS sentence marked by ✓ in left margin.

extends west as far as Mount Gambier. Lycopodium Selago and varium are assuredly the same.

Prof Braun has described already in the Linnaea 1852 my which grows also in lowland waters of VDL The may be only a variety of it, but the former ought to remain as name. The same excellent friend has offered at the l. c. diagnoses of the Tasmanian .

was described in Braun (1852) p. 722. Braun described the Characeae species collected by Stuart in Tasmania and M in South Australia and Victoria in Braun (1852a).

The Pilularia = P. Novae Hollandiae Braun, and the opinion of such a master of this order of plants I think deserves consideration; he considers in a letter to me

Letter not found.

at least the W. Australian species quite distinct.

There is a omitted in Fl. Tasm., which I have from South Esk River, Tasm and from Port Albert, Snowy River, Dandenong &c in Victoria.

is quite distinct from S. bifida, it grows in V. D. L in the N. part & at South-Port & in Victoria near Wilsons promontory.

was found by Mr Oldfield at New Norfolk!

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