The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 8/6/67 ¶ Dear Prof Gray. ¶ ¶ In rearranging the immense extraaustralian Herbarium here I find several omissions in H.f. & B. gen. vol. I & II ¶ & I am thus induced to ask, whether you have furnished...

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Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 67.06.08

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Desmonema
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Forchhammera
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1867-06-08. 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/1860-9/1867/67-06-08-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

8/6/67

Dear Prof Gray.

In rearranging the immense extraaustralian Herbarium here I find several omissions in H.f. & B. gen. vol. I & II

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vols 1, 2.

& I am thus induced to ask, whether you have furnished or published any additions or corrections to this good & important work. I have sent some notes to the authors & in D.C. pr. XV J. Müller has furnished also supplemental data.

J. Müller (1866).

Would it not be well you rendered any observations of yours briefly accessible. Thus an Australian phytographer has but little knowledge of American plants &c. Let me ask thus for instance what is (Rafinesq. herb. 23 (1833) quoted by J. Müller? What is ?

Rafinesque (1832-3), pp. 177-9; Liebmann (1854), pp. 93-5. Both and Forchhammeria are included in the 'Genera exclusa' list in J. Müller (1866), p.1258. The text ends well away from the bottom of the page, without valediction.