To Joseph Hooker1    14 March 1867

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

 
1
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'.
2
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).
3
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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/67-03-14a