Is it not a pity to exclude Laurineae from the higher Calyciflorae. — Only when the monochlamydeous plants are reduced to Gymnogens & Amentaceae we can hope to establish a true system of affinity,1 and this will probably be the arrangement I shall adopt for the "Plants of Victoria"
Melaleuca ericifolia is the plant here usually employed for making garlands to decorate public buildings with festoons &c. This may be worthy of notice in the work.2
The draft transmitted will liquidate my account, also £1 paid by Dr Hooker for dissecting instruments; the rest can go towards future payments on genera plantarum.3
Amentaceae
Calyciflorae
Gymnogen
Laurineae
Melaleuca ericifolia
See Maroske (2006) for an analysis of M's views on systems of classification.
This use was not mentioned in the entry in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, p. 159.
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).
MS annotation: 'vol. iii', i.e. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, probably an archivist's note when arranging the MSS for binding. The correspondent is most likely to have been Bentham, as M wrote such short notes to him during preparation of Flora australiensis. Item dated to early 1865 from the reference to J. Hooker purchasing dissecting instruments for M. They were requested in M to J. Hooker, 25 June 1864 (in this edition as 64-06-25a) and receipt was acknowledged in M to J. Hooker, 22 December 1864.
Please cite as “FVM-65-00-00c,” 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