State Garden
Melbourne
14/3/67
Dear Dr Hooker.
By one of the crew of the Yorkshire I send you roots of Damasonium ovalifolium (Ottelia ovalifolia), of Triglochin procerum, & of Heleocharis sphacelata. If they arrive they will be valuable for your warm house pond.2
I told the man in charge that he would receive one guinea from you, if the plants arrived all safely & proportionately less should some perish.
Your regardful
Ferd Mueller3
Damasonium ovalifolium
Heleocharis sphacelata
Ottelia ovalifolia
Triglochin procerum
The letter is folded and addressed: 'Dr Hooker, FRS. | Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew'. Annotated under the address: 'Received 1 Pound | From H. Taylor | William Horne | 17/6/67'.
The plants were noted as received at Kew, apparently in good order, on 18 June 1867 (Kew inwards book 1859-67, p. 404, RBG Kew, Kewensia).
Annotated beneath signature: 20/ paid by me | [to] [one illegible word (presumably Horne)] | H. Taylor | 17 June/67.
Please cite as “FVM-67-03-14a,” 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