The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Aug 7/67 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ The Wellesley has arrived & brought your case with the Goodeniaceae all safe — many thanks for the Xerotes basket, we have none so new and nice. ¶ ¶ Your ¶ Arran ¶ p...

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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 67.08.07

Plant names

Anigozanthus
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Arcidium
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Diuris
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Nuytsia
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Podocarpus drouynianus
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Sphaeria Robertsii
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Xerotes
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Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-08-07. 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/1860-9/1867/67-08-07-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Aug 7/67

MS embossed with seal of the 'Royal Gardens Kew'.

My dear Mueller

The Wellesley has arrived & brought your case with the all safe — many thanks for the basket, we have none so new and nice.

Your Arran

Scotland. See M to G. Bentham, 31 March 1867.

plants shall be named, they are not all from that Island, which Isld I know well & which does not contain a single rare plant — some are Edinburgh plants I should think.

Thanks too for the seeds of . I very much hope that they may grow as we have not the plant.

I never examined fruit. The 4 cotyledons are curious, but I think shown not unfrequently in some — I speak from Memory however

Bentham has gone to the Continent for 2 months, he is now on his way to visit von Martius

The Sphaeria on a Caterpillar which you sent is gone to Berkeley who says that it most resembles S. Robertsii but that its fructification is imperfect & the species cannot hence be diagnosed.

The is probably new — B. is now at work on all the Australian Fungi.

How many Anigozanthi do you cultivate? — We have but two. Of your pretty bulbs several are flowering, , &c but unluckily all the species are already figured in The Magazine.

e.g. macrophylla and maculata in W. Hooker (1827-64), vol. 59, t. 3172 and t. 3156, respectively.

Ever sincerely Yrs

Jos D Hooker