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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Carruthers, 1891-04-28. 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/1890-6/1891/91-04-28-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026
28/4/91.
Only some few lines this time, dear Mr Carruthers, as I have been overwhelmed with
extrawork for Sir Thomas Elders Central Australian and for Baron von Nordenskiolds
south-polar Expedition both originating through myself. Thus I have not been able
for the last 2 weeks to write more for the Journal of the excellent Mr Britten.
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James Britten edited Journal of botany, British and foreign.
I like this time merely to ask at what page in Ray's methodus of 1682 the word
does appear.
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See M to A. G ay, 20 February 1884. Ray (1682) included a discussion of the characters of seeds (pp. 1–19), but not
until the 1703 edition of the work did he include ‘Dicotyledones’ and ‘Monocotyledones’
as subdivisions in the section ‘De Herbis’; the subdivision was not made in the section
dealing with the second primary group, ‘De Arboribus et Fruticibus’. For a discussion
of Ray’s approach and a comparison of the 1682 and 1703 classifications, see Vines
(1913), especially pp. 28–39.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.