The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ EPIPOGIUM GMELINI — Koch in his Synopsis indicates the wide distribution through Germany, of Epipogium ¶ — a plant which, when the excellent Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants was written, ...

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Epipogium
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Ferdinand von Mueller to John Lindley, 1865-01 [65.01.00c]. 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/1860-9/1865/65-01-00c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Foreign correspondence', Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette, 11 March 1865, p. 222 (B65.03.01). The correspondent is inferred to be Lindley, the editor of the journal, based on the reference to his orchid volume. It is dated to January 1865 as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to be published in this issue.

EPIPOGIUM GMELINI — Koch in his Synopsis indicates the wide distribution through Germany, of

W. Koch (1843-5), vol. 2, pp. 799-800.

— a plant which, when the excellent Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants was written, was only known to you from Austria and Siberia.

Lindley (1830-40), p. 383.

I have it from the Tenteburger Wald, that historically classical spot; and I have it also from various places in Switzerland. I send you the only specimen I ever found in Holstein, where it is exceedingly rare.

F. Mueller

Melbourne.