The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [From a letter received from Dr Mueller, the highly reputed director of the Melbourne botanical garden in Australia, we learn that he has worked around the Chenopodiaceae to ascertain the need to b...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Théodore Caruel, 1870-06 [70.06.00b]. 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/1870-9/1870/70-06-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Lavori del Dr Mueller sulle Chenopodiacee' [Dr. Mueller's works on Chenopodiaceae], Nuovo giornale botanico italiano , vol. 2 (1870), p. 314. It is dated to June 1870 as the earliest date that it could have been sent after M had received proof sheets of the treatment of Chenopodiaceae in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, announced as sent in G. Bentham to M, 15 April 1870, and receipt acknowledged in M to G. Bentham, 17 June 1870, in which M comments on Bentham's treatment of and Blitum , mentioned in the text.

[Da lettera avuta dal Dr Mueller, il riputatissimo direttore del giardino botanico di Melbourne in Australia, apprendiamo che egli lavorando attorno alle Chenopodiacee si è accertato della necessità di riunire il genere Blitum ai , come pure di mettere le specie nord-americane e asiatiche di nel genere , che perciò contiene ora 5 specie; già fin dal 1858 il chiarissimo botanico aveva unito gli agli ; propone pure di unire e , e approva la riunione fatta dal sig. Bentham nella Flora Australiana di e , cosicchè la di Europa diventerebbe ora una .]

[From a letter received from Dr Mueller, the highly reputed director of the Melbourne botanical garden in Australia, we learn that he has worked around the Chenopodiaceae to ascertain the need to bring together the genus with , as well as to put the North American and Asian species of in the genus , which therefore now contains 5 species; already by the end of 1858 the illustrious botanist had combined with ; he also proposes to unite and , and approves the unification made by Mr. Bentham in the Australian Flora of and , so that the of Europe would now become a .

M worked up this group, as Salsolaceae, in B69.06.03, pp. 8-15. He united Blitum with in his treatment of C. cristatum and C. atriplicinum on p. 11; he did not mention in his treatment of (p. 11); he maintained on p. 13, but it was united with by Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, p 189. was not mentioned in his treatment of , pp. 8-10. In B57.09.04, pp. 74-5 he had however listed '( )' under leptocarpum, A. spongiosum and A. inflatum, possibly indicating that he considered these three species to be in the section of the genus. That view is consistent with his usage when listing Babbage's collection, in B59.03.01, where for example he uses ' incrassatum (Sect. .)' (p. 20). M united with in his treatment of H. mesembryanthema in B73.04.02, p. 38.

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