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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 83. 84.02.22

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1884-02-22. 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/1880-9/1884/84-02-22-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Drouin,
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Vic. A blue-pencil tick has been added opposite the address in the MS.
22/2/84
This day, dear Mr Dyer, I received your note conveying the wish of reobtaining a living plant of
Ophioglossum pendulum

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.
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Letter not found.
At once I rendered your desire known to Mr Pink,
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James Pink, Head Gardener, Brisbane Botanic Garden.
who is almost sure to have a
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to spare with an Ophioglossum growing on it; perhaps there may even yet specimens of spontaneous growth yet occur near the Brisbane-River.
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of spontaneous growth is written above to be spared of spon deleted; the second yet is interlined.
I have begged of him to send the plant to Kew direct.
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No record has been found in the 'Kew Inwards Books' of specimens of these ferns being received at Kew in or after 1884.
For the print on sand binding plants I feel much obliged.
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See Gardeners’ chronicle, 24 May 1884, p. 685, and also M to J. Hooker, 11 March 1884.
All such publications are useful for supplementing the “Select plants” though I rigorously must exclude any species, which is not practically valuable on a commercial scale and not readily manageable. I pick up new data, thus restrained, whenever and wherever I can. The Detroit-Edition, according to letters by the last American mail, was then nearly got through the press.
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B84.13.22.
A presentation copy will go to Kew. Will you kindly ask Sir Joseph, whether I ought to include among fruit-plants the
Decaisnea

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just illustrated in the Bot Mag in the next Edition?
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Decaisnea

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insignis was illustrated in J. Hooker (1865-1904), vol. 110, t. 6731 (published 1 January 1884). The species was included in B85.12.03 and all subsequent editions of M’s Select plants except B87.14.06.
Asa Gray just sent me his printed remarks on A. De C.’s last legislative essay.
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A. Gray (1883).
He puts the case of
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and
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incompletely, omitting that the former
Candollea

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got absorbed in
Hibbertia

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. Then, where is fixity without proper priority ; such would be contradictory.
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See A. Gray (1883), p. 433 and also M to A. Gray, 20 February 1884.
The summer-heat alleviated my pulmonary sufferings. I have just gone with Office-work to a forest-region of Gippsland; there is now some hope of my ultimately recovering.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller