The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ I shall enjoy greater facilities in deciphering some of the Diagnoses in plant Preiss ¶ by the acquisition of the herbarium of the late Dr Steetz, which I have purchased. ¶ I hope thus to turn so...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 9. 63.07.00a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1863-07 [63.07.00a]. 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/1860-9/1863/63-07-00a-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

The references to the work on Flora australiensis indicate that the addressee was Bentham. The manuscript was written by M. The fragment may belong with another letter to Bentham.

MS annotation 'vol. ii’, i.e. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 2. MS dated to July 1863 as the earliest likely date it could have been written, given M's reference to the printed sheets dealing with ; see n. 9 below.

I shall enjoy greater facilities in deciphering some of the Diagnoses in plant Preiss

Lehmann (1844-7).

by the acquisition of the herbarium of the late Dr Steetz, which I have purchased.

M purchased the herbarium of Joachim Steetz for £80 in 1863 (see Short & Sinkora (1988)), and received it in early December 1863 (M to G. Bentham, 12 December 1863).

I hope thus to turn some of the West Australian plants of my own collection to good account by critical comparison. What is

Psoralea drummondii?

Meisn? I see nothing but position of leaves to separate from P. ternata and they may therefore be united as P. Cunninghami

Pultenaea cunninghamii?

rendering thus the transit to absolutely complete. is certainly a Pultenaea

We are of course anxious to get out the 30 copies of the flora for our Government. Will you be so kind to see that Lovell Reeves does not delay the sending and that I get at least [2] copies bound by the mail.

The first volume of Flora australiensis was published on 30 May 1863 and M received 30 copies on 8 December 1863 (M to J. McCulloch, 8 December 1863).

You will receive in the next box all the carpologic specimens of my (Australeae) You have given Mr Horatio Tozer's name (after whom the ) as Thozets who is A Thozet at Rockhampton.

Presumably in the sheets of vol. 2 of Flora australiensis sent successively to M after Bentham corrected proofs and the sheets were printed for the volume. The name was not corrected; see Bentham (1863-78), vol. 2, pp. 424-5.

The former gentleman in his endeavour to obtain [fruit] specimens of the magnificent met with so serious accident through the fall of his horse that he was laid up for a very long time and has never fully recovered from it. So be so good to retain his name for that plant.

B65.04.01, p. 10.

The unfortunate Gentleman resides on the Hastings River. I forgot to quote in my review of Victor. e,

Presumably for his Flora of Victoria, of which he had sent to Bentham (see M to G. Bentham, 23 July 1863) the first five printed sheets (40 pages) of the second volume, including . (B63.13.06). No further sheets were printed, and the volume was never published.

that Link in his Handbuch zür Erkennung dur Gewächsecalls the phyllodeous species !

Link (1829-33) vol. 2, p. 132.

As they are diagnostified as such, these synonyms must unavoidably for completeness sake be quoted.

I should have perhaps not commenced to work upon

M described a number of spp. in B63.09.01.

had I not to finish off the sheets on e, to release typus. I shall discontinue now publishing that work until I have back the material from you & implore you to use every care that it safely is shipped and always carefully packed and sealed up. The expenses therewith connected can not be great and I feel sure you will spare none to secure safety and good conservation for this important series of plants without which I cannot proceed with my careful & critical review of Victor. plants. The supplements to vol. 1 must fill some sheets, which will make up for what you have devoted in vol 1 for introductions &c &c.

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