The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 25/1/66 ¶ ¶ Probably I shall be able to enclose to you, dear Dr Hooker, the 36 No. of the Fragmenta ¶ this mail. In glancing over the filices you will observe that Schizaea fistulosa & Gleichenia He...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 193-4. 66.01.25

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Cyathea medullaris
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Gleichenia Hermanni
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-01-25. 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/1860-9/1866/66-01-25-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

25/1/66

Probably I shall be able to enclose to you, dear Dr Hooker, the 36 No. of the Fragmenta

B66.02.01.

this mail. In glancing over the filices you will observe that & occur in N.Z.

B66.02.01, p. 113, 114.

I believe it would be advantageous, if you could see my N Z Herbarium before you close the 2 vol.

J. Hooker (1864-7); the second part was issued in 1867.

The collection is very rich & contains Haasts earlier plants of which no duplicates went to Kew, e.g. .

Your never to be forgotten father looked through my collection of Austral. ferns hurriedly , as he stated, not wishing to retain it long.

See M to W. Hooker, 24 February 1864; the letter(s) from W. Hooker to which M refers have not been found.

He wished me to see to the comparison of his naming with the diagnoses of his great work. This I have done faithfully & thus completed [or] altered the definitions. Had the synopsis. fil.

W. Hooker & Baker (1865-8).

appeared before his lamented death it would have brought up our knowledge of Austr. ferns to a recent date. As it is it became necessary during the present Pteridomania

OED: ‘an extravagant enthusiasm for ferns’; see Allen (1969).

to place the Austral species along side each other in some fresh publication,

See the list ‘Filicum in Museo Phytologico Melbournensi…’, B66.02.01, pp. 111-2.

and this will be useful to anyone who may finish the synopsis, I presume yourself, who devoted already so much research to ferns. Had Sir Will even written no other work than the species filicum, it would immortalize him; but indeed I verily believe there is no square mile of the globe where the vegetation does not speak of him! Could I once say this of Australia only, I should consider I had not lived in vain, though my share on the elucidation of Australian plants has become much smaller as I originally hoped.

Would you kindly give me your opinion on this Cyathea. I introduced it as C. medullaris into my list.

B66.02.01, p. 116; see also B65.06.01.

I have of the orders now intended for the 3. vol of the flora Australiensis

Bentham (1863-78).

some additions, but shall probably only be able to send them by next mail.

Your attached

Ferd Mueller