The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne, Christmasday, 1864. ¶ ¶ I have, dear Dr Hooker, just hurriedly glanced over your Handbook on New Zealand plants ¶ . Ranunculus Traversii is decidely only a variety of R. Haastii. The name ...

Document information

Physical location:

RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70. un-numbered letter after f. 157. 64.12.25b

Plant names

Ackama
Search for Ackama in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Aster
Search for Aster in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Carex
Search for Carex in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Carex stellulata
Search for Carex stellulata in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Carmichaelia
Search for Carmichaelia in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Compositae
Search for Compositae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Coprosma
Search for Coprosma in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Crantzia lineata
Search for Crantzia lineata in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Donatia Novae Zeelandiae
Search for Donatia Novae Zeelandiae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Eryngium vesiculosum
Search for Eryngium vesiculosum in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Eurybia
Search for Eurybia in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Gentianae
Search for Gentianae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Geranium dissectum
Search for Geranium dissectum in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Geranium microphyllum
Search for Geranium microphyllum in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Gypsophila tubulosa
Search for Gypsophila tubulosa in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Hedera
Search for Hedera in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Hoheria
Search for Hoheria in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Hymenophylla
Search for Hymenophylla in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Hypericium gramineum
Search for Hypericium gramineum in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Hypericium japonicum
Search for Hypericium japonicum in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Olearia
Search for Olearia in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Oxalis Magellanica
Search for Oxalis Magellanica in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Panax crassifolius
Search for Panax crassifolius in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Pisonia Brunonis
Search for Pisonia Brunonis in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Pisonia inermis
Search for Pisonia inermis in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Pomaderris phylicifolia
Search for Pomaderris phylicifolia in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Quintinia
Search for Quintinia in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Ranunculaceae
Search for Ranunculaceae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Ranunculus Haastii
Search for Ranunculus Haastii in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Ranunculus Traversii
Search for Ranunculus Traversii in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Ranunculus hirtus
Search for Ranunculus hirtus in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Ranunculus plebejus
Search for Ranunculus plebejus in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Samolus litoralis
Search for Samolus litoralis in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Samolus repens
Search for Samolus repens in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Sida
Search for Sida in
Spartothamnus
Search for Spartothamnus in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Tetragonia implexicoma
Search for Tetragonia implexicoma in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Tetragonia trigyna
Search for Tetragonia trigyna in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Teucridium sphaerocarpum
Search for Teucridium sphaerocarpum in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Unciniae
Search for Unciniae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Vittadinia
Search for Vittadinia in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1864-12-25 [64.12.25b]. 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/1860-9/1864/64-12-25b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Melbourne, Christmasday, 1864.

I have, dear Dr Hooker, just hurriedly glanced over your Handbook on New Zealand plants

J. Hooker (1864-7).

. is decidely only a variety of R. Haastii. The name R. hirtus B & S. is older than that of R. plebejus

R . plebeius in J. Hooker (1864-7).

If we adopt for the fruits of Compositae, which are truely connate with the calyx (of which the pappus is the limb) the expression achen[ium], we cannot possibly call the fruits of with the same name. To me the most correct name of them appears caryopsides.

is not confined to South Australia, a name meaning a certain colonial territory.

I still maintain that no specific differences exist between H. gramineum & H. Japonicum.

Hypericium.

Can really the two Hoherias be placed in different genera? To me they appear both e.

differs in no way from G. dissectum permanently.

occurs also on the Alps of Australia.

is also a Victorian plant. The species of are too numerous in your work.

occurs in the Tasmanian alps.

has no generic claims, the inflorescence of being as well paniculate as racemose. is the same as T. implexicoma.

occurs also in N. S. Wales & in South Australia.

we have from varied parts of extratropical Australia.

Panax cr[a]ssifolius

P. crassifolium in J. Hooker (1864-7).

is a true as Asa Gray has correctly pointed out, unless we abandon that genus. The species of I regard as to be largely re[duc]ted

The genus has certainly priority over Eurybia, but as the very few Olearias were already reduced to we receive now many additional synonyms. I am inclined to reduce the whole genus to Aster.

embraces only one species, the N.Z. one not differing from that of N. H. The plant occurs also in New Caledonia. It appears to me merely a subgenus of Aster.

is several years older than S. litoralis.

S. littoralis?

The are all forms of one species.

is = , a genus apparently different from Teucridium in a superior radicle and hence myoporineous & not verbenaceous.

J. Hooker (1864-7), p. 224 attributes to M, without a publication citation; it was M's herbarium name, see K881361. See also, under Spartothmanus junceus, B68.03.04, p. 153, and Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, pp. 55-6; Hooker (1864-7), p. 739 in 'Additions, corrections, etc.' notes M's opinion of its systematic position.

P. Brunoniana in J. Hooker (1864-7).

is according to Seeman = P. inermis.

The number of Unciniae, of Carex, of Hymenophylla

Hymenophyllum?

& several other genera are certainly overrated.

occurs in the alps of Australia.

Regardfully

yrs

Ferd. Mueller.