The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 22/4/70 ¶ ¶ I hoped, dear Dr Hooker, to have sent by the clipper sailing this week, to you a supplemental case of Monochlamydeae for Mr Bentham’s use, but as I have ¶ not yet ¶ over come the diffic...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 429. 70.04.22b

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Caltha
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Menyanthes
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1870-04-22 [70.04.22b]. 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/1870-9/1870/70-04-22b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

22/4/70

I hoped, dear Dr Hooker, to have sent by the clipper sailing this week, to you a supplemental case of for Mr Bentham’s use, but as I have not yet over come the difficulties in my department, — I fell ill under anxieties and lost so much time in defending my position against insult and misrepresentations, that really I could not send it off yet, but mean to do so within the next weeks. It will contain also among other things some fresh seed-collections for Mr Verd[o]n.

The majority of the s did arrive safely and are a great acquisition as a curiosity . It is just 100 years since Capt Cook came to our shores, first to what is now East Gipps Land

& are florishing in my cold tank. What splendid acquisitions, if I succeed to naturalize them in our forest rivulets, as I did with the large American Blackberry.

J. Willis (1972) does not indicate any naturalized species of and in Victoria.

Always your regardful

Ferd von Mueller.