I shall enjoy greater facilities in deciphering some of the Diagnoses in plant Preiss2 by the acquisition of the herbarium of the late Dr Steetz, which I have purchased.3 I hope thus to turn some of the West Australian plants of my own collection to good account by critical comparison. What is Psoralia Drummondi4 Meisn? I see nothing but position of leaves to separate Pultenaea epacridea from P. ternata and they may therefore be united as P. Cunninghami5 rendering thus the transit to Spadostylis absolutely complete. Pultenaea euchila is certainly a Pultenaea
We are of course anxious to get out the 30 copies of the flora for our Government. Will you be so kind to see that Lovell Reeves does not delay the sending and that I get at least [2] copies bound by the mail.6
You will receive in the next box all the carpologic specimens of my Leguminosae (Australeae) You have given Mr Horatio Tozer's name (after whom the Myrtus Tozeri) as Thozets who is A Thozet at Rockhampton.7 The former gentleman in his endeavour to obtain [fruit] specimens of the magnificent Pithecolobium Tozerii met with so serious accident through the fall of his horse that he was laid up for a very long time and has never fully recovered from it. So be so good to retain his name for that plant.8 The unfortunate Gentleman resides on the Hastings River. I forgot to quote in my review of Victor. Acaciae,9 that Link in his Handbuch zür Erkennung dur Gewächsecalls the phyllodeous species Phyllodoces!10 As they are diagnostified as such, these synonyms must unavoidably for completeness sake be quoted.
I should have perhaps not commenced to work upon Chorozema11 had I not to finish off the sheets on Acaciae, to release typus. I shall discontinue now publishing that work until I have back the material from you & implore you to use every care that it safely is shipped and always carefully packed and sealed up. The expenses therewith connected can not be great and I feel sure you will spare none to secure safety and good conservation for this important series of plants without which I cannot proceed with my careful & critical review of Victor. plants. The supplements to vol. 1 must fill some sheets, which will make up for what you have devoted in vol 1 for introductions &c &c.
I see Chorizema platylobioides = Mirbelia grandiflora.
Acacia
Chorizema platylobioides
Chorozema
Leguminosae
Mirbelia grandiflora
Myrtus Tozeri
Phyllodoces
Pithecolobium Tozerii
Psoralia Drummondi
Pultenaea Cunninghami
Pultenaea epacridea
Pultenaea euchila
Pultenaea ternata
Spadostylis
The references to the work on Flora australiensis indicate that the addressee was Bentham. The manuscript was written by M. The fragment may belong with another letter to Bentham.
MS annotation 'vol. ii’, i.e. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 2.
Please cite as “FVM-63-07-00a,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/63-07-00a