The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Brisbane ¶ July 7. 1872 ¶ Dear Sir. ¶ ¶ I enclose you my very indifferent example of ¶ Hypolaena exsulca ¶ RBr. ¶ ♀ ¶ , and also ¶ Anarthria prolifera ¶ , ¶ Carpha alpina RBr. ¶ ¶ Scleria rugo...

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RB MSS M51, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 72.07.07

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Anarthria prolifera
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Andropogon
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Arthrochilus caliciformis
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Arthrochilus foliosus
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Arthrochilus irritabilis
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Carpha alpina
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Danthonia
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Ectrosia
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Graminaceae
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Hierochloe
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Hypolaena exsulca
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Isachne
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Lindsaea cultrata
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Neurachne
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Panicum
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Pentapogon
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Poa
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Restio capitatus
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Restio fasciculatus
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Rhyncospora longiseta
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Tetrarrhena juncea
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Triraphis
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Preferred Citation:

Charles Prentice to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1872-07-07. 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/1870-9/1872/72-07-07-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS found with a specimen of (MEL 39777). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 17/7/72 F.v.M'. Letter not found.

Brisbane

July 7. 1872

Dear Sir.

I enclose you my very indifferent example of RBr. ♀, and also , RBr. , , &

Rhynchospora longisetis?

which are all authentic. I named no doubt by inadvertence from memory R. capitatus.

No publication of has been found (APNI, IPNI, accessed 14 June 2023).

Also an Arthrochilus , which I sent to Kew three or four years since, and named A. caliciformis though foliosus would be a better specific name,

No publication of either or A. foliosus has been found (APNI, IPNI, accessed 14 June 2023).

if the thing is really distinct from your Ar. irritabilis , which is not rare near Brisbane, but I have never been able to find another example of the first. When I saw it, I supposed it to be a new genus, and named it Arthrochilus , not knowing you had anticipated me, for there is next to no scientific library here and the few books worth consulting are scarcely accessible.

I saw in Feby. four fine examples of A. irritabilis in the Kew herbarium, and have never seen any here so large — by the way the movement of the [leaves] in the upper part of the resupinate labellum is one of mobility, not irritability.

You have no doubt long since received examples of the ferns brought from the north by Mr Hill in 1865; there was among them a certain Lindsaea which seems to be accepted at Kew as L. cultrata, which is no doubt its nearest ally, but it seems to me to differ from the Common East Indian fern in habit, in the crowded [pinnules], in the uniformly smaller stature, and in one or two other slight particulars which would make it at least a marked Australian var.

My favourite family is , and if you have any duplicates of Southern & S. Western genera, particularly , , , , , , , , , , & Tetrarrhena except T. juncea, or any Algae, you would confer an obligation upon me, could you spare them.

I am of course much obliged by your offer of a regular correspondence, as I cannot fail to benefit by communication with so consummate a botanist.

Believe me, my dear baron

Yours very faithfully

Chas. Prentice.