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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 333. 68.02.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1868-02 [68.02.00b]. 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/1860-9/1868/68-02-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS annotation: 'X Apostasia [aff] A. Nudae' [A nuda?].
The letter is dated on the basis that February 1868 is the last possible date for it to have been responded to in G. Bentham to M, 16 April 1868, see below. It is unlikely to have been written before late 1867, since M erected
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(N. stylidioides) in December 1867 (B67.12.01, p. 96). (This is not the same genus as the
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that M erected in 1870 [N. prunifera, B70.12.03, p. 114].)
Would you be so kind, dear Dr Hooker, to compare in your herbarium the enclosed little plant which I named
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The sentence containing
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is marked in the margin with a cross. In G. Bentham to M, 16 April 1868—the reply to M to G. Bentham, 5 February 1868—Bentham identified the plant as Apostasia nuda.
as I may have fallen into an error, placing it among
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and may thus have missed recognizing its name & true position. I am not well provided with literary and museum material, concerning these monocotyled. orders.
Should, without trouble to yourself, you be able to confirm the position of the plant, you would add to the favor in transmitting the small specimen in a letter to Profess. Dr Felix Niemeyer, the great pathologist of the University of Tuebingen, Wuerttemberg.
Your regardful
Ferd Mueller