Melbourne bot. Garden
15./4./63.
My dear Sir William.
The Great Britain takes again (free of charge by courtesy of Mr Bright) one case with plants intended for consultation at Kew. I have asked his Excellency Sir H. Barkly to send all his Guiana & Jamaica ferns to you & the Governor complied at once with my request; so that the collection is going in the same box. I beg to submit all my normal collections of ferns also for your use. His Excellency wishes you to retain his plants until he can personally receive them again from you. It is almost unneccessary to repeat, that any duplicates of the ferns may be retained for the Kew hebarium.
Will you kindly let one of your assistants first arrange the ferns, as there are unadded supplemental fascicles with them. Indeed I had no time to arrange the whole properly.
Ever with sincerest regards & veneration
Yours
Ferd Mueller
I shall enclose in the box with ferns a large fascicle of Carex for Dr Boott's inspection. To you & that Gentleman any duplicates are available. Perhaps the Doctor would soon return them & let me specially know about my Carex cephalotes,2 which is a rather local glacial species his opinion. I should think the collection is worthy of a special record.
Carex cephalotes
Please cite as “FVM-63-04-15,” 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/63-04-15