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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 37. 71.05.00b

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1871-05 [71.05.00b]. 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/1870-9/1871/71-05-00b-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

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The correspondent is identified as Bentham since M knew he would be working during 1872 on the
Coniferae

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for Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6; see J. Hooker to M, 20 November 1872.
MS dated to May 1871 as the earliest possible date it could have been sent, given M's reference to his published description of
Spondylostrobus

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in B71.05.02. The reference to B71.06.02, listed as a 'recent publication' by the Argus on 6 June 1871, p. 6, suggests that M expected his note to reach Bentham before this publication did.
Some simplification among the genera of
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is necessary. You will have observed that I insisted on the reduction of
Frenela

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to
Callitris

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in my elucidation of the fossil genus
Spondylostrobus

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.
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B71.05.02, p.49, where M also treated Actinostrobus as a sub-genus of
Callitris

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; see also B71.06.02, p. 33. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, p. 239, preferred
Frenela

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to
Callitris

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.
You will find the
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in omitted between find and the?
appendix to the Accl. Soc. Report for this year also
Retinospora

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[reduced] as well as
Chamaecyparis

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to
Cupressus

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.
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B71.06.02; both generic reductions are on p. 31.