24/1/62.
My dear Sir William.
I have to thank you for an other friendly letter, you honored me with under date of 2. Nov.2 It is always delightful to hear of you and your direct communications are a real boon to me, altho' I truly wish you should allow me to write to you by every mail without exciting you to such exertions as to honor me with replies.
I admiring the ardour, with which you foster botanical research, again evinced by your calling forth this important series of Colonial floras.
Having written both to Mr Bentham & Dr Hooker,3 I have not much more of importance to relate. Perhaps some of the notes in the [P] sheets of my Flora4 sent by this mail may interest you.
I hope you will take possession of the collection of vegetable products enumerated in the proof-index here transmitted.5
pr "Young Australia" I forwarded the first 27 fascicles of Thalamiflorae, one consignment will probably follow by "Great-Britain" and two others afterwards.
I have to mention that the oil labelled Melaleuca uncinata in the consignment pr "Young Australia" is that of M. curvifolia; by the Great Britain that of M. uncinata will be sent.
It seems you have Wittsteinia vacciniacea growing? It would be a great triumph if so, as the plant would be hardy in Britain.6
Poa ramigera is as a grass very interesting on account of its Bamboo like ramifications.
Ever with the humblest attachment, dear Sir William,
Yours
Ferd. Mueller
The complete volume of the Flora will come by next mail[.]7 I hope Professor Harvey is not suffering again. He overworks himself.
Melaleuca curvifolia
Melaleuca uncinata
Poa ramigera
Thalamiflorae
Wittsteinia vacciniacea
Please cite as “FVM-62-01-24d,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/62-01-24d