[M. Weddell dit qu'il existe dans la famille des Urticées un fait analogue à celui qu'a observé M. Planchon sur l'Erodium. M. Ferdinand Mueller (de Melbourne) lui a parlé, dans une de ses lettres, d'un Laportea photiniphylla chez lequel on a trouvé une cavité complétement fermée, de 2 à 3 mètres de longueur, revêtue intérieurement d'une couche d'écorce tout à fait semblable à l'écorce extérieure de la même plante.]
[Mr Weddell said that there exists in the family of Urticeae a fact analogous to that observed by M. Planchon on the Erodium. Mr Ferdinand Mueller (of Melbourne) spoke to him, in one of his letters, of a Laportea photiniphylla in which was found a completely closed cavity, 2 to 3 metres in length, covered internally with a layer of bark. quite similar to the outer bark of the same plant.1]
Erodium
Laportea photiniphylla
Weddell cited M for some details of Laportea photiniphylla in Weddell (1869), p. 83, but this observation was not included.
Letter not found. The text given here is from a report of the discussion following Planchon's presentation of his paper (Planchon (1867)) at the International Botanical Congress in Paris in August 1867; see p. 124. It is dated to 1866 as a possible date, as Weddell was almost certainly working on his monograph (Weddell (1869)), and M had an indirect communication from Weddell in that year; see G. Bentham to M, 18 June 1866.
Please cite as “FVM-66-00-00c,” 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