The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 14/11/93. ¶ ¶ It needs not my assurance, dear Mr Bastow, that I will give you the same full access to the Jungermanniaceae as to the true Mosses in my Herbarium. I do this with all the more pleasure,...

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RB MSS M15, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 93.11.14

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Bastow, 1893-11-14. 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/1890-6/1893/93-11-14-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

14/11/93.

It needs not my assurance, dear Mr Bastow, that I will give you the same full access to the as to the true Mosses in my Herbarium. I do this with all the more pleasure, as you are thus far an accomplished specialist, and as you evinced always a commesurate

commensurate? M had 'ss' and crossed one out.

public appreciation of the the

Word repeated.

toils and sacrifices involved for bringing together such extensive collections as mine through a very long series of years (since 1847 here, since 1839 in Europe). I have given directions in the Herbarium, that due facilities are afforded to you there, while examining the . I prefer the last mentioned word (see Census of Austr. plants)

Neither B83.03.04 nor B89.12.03 lists cryptogams, but in B82.01.06, p. 64, M uses for the leafy liverworts. Despite M's view, Bastow used the term in Bastow (1914), as he had in Bastow (1887).

for the following reasons: 1, Most plants of this large order have leaflike organs, few only thalloid expansions. 2, The name was 1718 already chosen for the genus of (near ), and 11 years later for what now is called ; 3, the ordinal name was first used only in 1763 and included then even and ! 4, the name is misleading for the greater part of the order. 5, the genus was established by Rupp in 1718 and adopted 1729 by Micheli. 6, the ordinal name or a very similar wording was adopted by Gray already 1821 by Gray subordinally and by so many other authors; 7 the English word Liverworts is quite inappropriate for the vast majority of the plants of this order. 8, The well known rule can be followed in calling the typic as a tribe

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller