The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [ ¶ Jussieua repens. ¶ — In a letter to the con[du]ctor ¶ , ¶ Baron Mueller calls attention to the general writing of this name as ¶ Jussiaea ¶ as being incorrect. In our copy of Linnaeus' "Gene...

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Jussiaea
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Meehan, 1893-09 [93.09.00f]. 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/1890-6/1893/93-09-00f-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter note found. The text given here is from ' ', Meehan's monthly , November 1893, p. 166. It is dated to September as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been reported in this issue.

[ . — In a letter to the con[du]ctor

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, Baron Mueller calls attention to the general writing of this name as as being incorrect. In our copy of Linnaeus' "Genera Plantarum iabam ex museo Cliffortiano,1736"

Linnaeus (1737a) was written when Linnaeus was residing with Clifford, and below §32 of his 'Ration operis', it is dated 'Dabam ex Museo Cliffortiano, 1736, November 20', which Meehan seems to have used to identify the edition. The reference is to the entry for genus 353 on p. 126.

In B93.03.01, p. 163, M wrote 'Linné, en définissant dans ses "Species plantarum" p. 388, …'. However, in Linnaeus (1753), vol. 1, p. 388, the name is spelled , citing 'Rheed. mal. 2 p. 99, t 51', where Rheede tot Drakenstein (1678-1703), vol. 2, discusses 'Nir-Carambu'. M had argued elsewhere that accepting Linnaeus (1753) as the starting point for legitimate genera was unfair to earlier authors; see, for example, M to A. Engler, 6 August 1892.

and referring to Rheede's "Hortus Malabaricus,'' it is written Jussieua as Baron Mueller suggests. He asks the aid of American botanists in settling a question of great geographical importance concerning credited to our continent. The plant we believe to be the one that he thinks is Forskall's . The genuine has white petals a little yellowish at the base in the manner of . Torrey and Gray describe the American species as having bright yellow flowers, as also has the Australian plant. is a larger plant than and has other differences. It is very desirable to know whether the American — presumably — is identical with the African and Australian species.

M had previously asked this question, see M to E. Greene, 5 December 1892 (in this edition as 92-12-05b).

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