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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller 1871-81, unnumbered folio after f. 296. 81.02.05a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1881-02-05 [81.02.05a]. 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/1880-9/1881/81-02-05a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
MS annotation by Hooker: 'And'.
5./2./81.
Will you be so kind, dear Sir Joseph, to send me a few lines, to say how the transmission of the
Livistona australis

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succeeded. I have occasion to utilize a note to that effect, if the experiment succeeded.
2
MS annotation: 'The plant is alive J.S.' See J. Hooker to M, 14 May 1881.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Have your prop[a]gators been very fortunate with the very numerous kinds of seeds often of very rare & beautiful plants sent month after month for so many years. I fear not in your not sunny clime as hardly ever one appears in the bot. Magazine You had always the first lot of rare seeds and always the unica
3
MS annotation: 'Seeds as a rule have germinated pretty well but nothing has yet flowered worth figuring. J. S[mith] [page crumbled]'.
The seeds of the Panicum from W. Africa gave better crops, than I at first examination thought.
4
See M to J. Hooker, 28 May 1879; M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 1 January 1881 (in this edition as 81-01-01a).
It is not P. spectabile. Still I am much beholden to you for sending the seeds