The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have now almost finished the apocarpous and corolline orders and Junceae and am having a second box packed up to return to you

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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 76.07.00

Plant names

Aneilema acuminatum
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Aneilema siliculosum
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Blandfordia Cunninghamii
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Blandfordia grandiflora
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Junceae
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Juncus pallidus
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Juncus vaginatus
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Pandaneae
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Preferred Citation:

George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1876-07. 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/1870-9/1876/76-07-00-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

Dated to July 1876 as the latest it could have been written before Bentham left home on 3 August for country visiting and to attend the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Glasgow (see B. Jackson (1906), pp. 237-8). Bentham returned home on 12 September.

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.

My dear Sir

I have now almost finished the apocarpous and corolline orders and and am having a second box packed up to return to you — it will probably be sent off next week. I am going from home for a short time and shall probably be altogether 6 weeks or two months absent in the course of the summer I shall however have some working time and hope to get through the Palms and by September when I shall be ready for which as well as I should be much obliged to you to send off to me at once if they are not already dispatched. At my age I am more than ever anxious to get through this work I suppose the will take me all the winter and I hope I may keep my health so as by spring to add on the Ferns with which I shall close the work.

I send in the box a copy of the new part of our Genera Plantarum

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 2, part 2, published May 1876 (TL2).

I find several errors in the previous identifications of Browns plants is his B. grandiflora. The large Juncus we all took for his J. vaginatus is his J. pallidus of the true J. vaginatus I have seen no specimen except in his herbarium. is also only in his herbarium except 2 good specimens we have from Cape York McGillivray it is I think quite distinct from A. acuminatum. I have been obliged to reduce very much his [& others]

Bentham is commenting on species listed by Robert Brown; for example, for Juncus compare R. Brown (1810), pp. 258-9 with the comments in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7, pp.123-32.

Yours very sincerely

George Bentham

Baron Ferd. v. Mueller