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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, ff. 45-6. 83.01.28

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1883-01-28. 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/1880-9/1883/83-01-28-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

28/1/83
It is not very faultful, my dear Sir Joseph, that I did not identify the supposed new
Didymocarpus

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with
Baea Treubii

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, as these two genera do not differ in flower, and as I had no fruit . Indeed I indicated in the footnote to my description, that it might be a Baea.
1
See B82.10.03, p. 229.
To the objections, which may be raised against my merging the
Monochlamydeae

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into the other series, I have replied in the preface, and I trust in dignified wording.
2
B83.03.04, p. vi.
Instead of creating difficulties for beginners, I hope to have simplified their study; and am aware as much as any one, that affinities are reticular, and for that very reason we cannot have a perfect & complete natural system, until all plants will be known. What little deviation I have adopted is trifling to those of Lindley, Fries, Eichler, [J.] Mueller and Caruel. The sequence adopted in the Census
3
B83.03.04.
is the same as that followed in my "native plants of Victoria."
4
B79.06.04.
Regardfully your
Ferd. Von Mueller.
I hope, that
Ottelia ovalifolia

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flowered & fruited at Kew, so that a drawing could be made from the fresh plant.
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See M to J. Hooker, 29 June 1882 (in this edition as 82-06-29b), and notes thereto.
A bound copy of the Census will go to you by next mail or the one after that. The index is just passing through the press, after some delay, over which I had no control. You have the census of the genera, as printed in Sydney in 1881.
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B82.01.06, B82.13.08.