Easterday 671
On the first of this month, dear Mr Bentham, the Wellesley sailed. This ship brings you all the remaining Goodeniaceae except one supplemental package (which I have in work now during the holidays) & except Dampiera; it contains also all Stylideae. 18 packages2 Thank God, I have cleared off much or all the work nearly of the exhibition3 & so I think the rest of the Coralliflorae will come now in rapid succession.
The box contains also 1 package Euphorbiaceae for Prof Baillon 2 packages Arran plants for your inspection & kind return4 & a basket made of Xerotes longifolia by the natives for Kew Museum.5
Calogyne must include Distylis; otherwise I make no alteration in the older genera of Goodeniaceae.6 Of all the miserable writings, with which systematic phytography has been burdened that of the author of the "Goodenovieae" is certainly the most miserable, and it is beyond my comprehension how a man of such eminence as Ver Huell could condescend to illustrate such imperfect work.7
I have Erycibe paniculata from the north, also a Gomphandra & c
Your ever regardful
Ferd Mueller
G. Bentham Esq
FLS FRS
&c &c &c
Calogyne
Coralliflorae
Dampiera
Distylis
Erycibe paniculata
Euphorbiaceae
Gomphandra
Goodeniaceae
Stylideae
Xerotes longifolia
21 April.
18 packages interlined. The record kept by M shows 20 packages were sent for Bentham, although the entry is totalled, erroneously, to 18 (RB MSS M44, Notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, RBG Melbourne.)
Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866-7.
Collection not identified.
The basket is recorded in the Museum entry book, Kew, 1861-79, p. 183, but may no longer exist at Kew: the item in the Economic Botany Museum as number 36442 is the one sent in 1873 (see M to J. Hooker, 30 January 1873).
Bentham (1863-78),vol. 4, p. 80, included Distylis within Calogyne. See also B67.07.05, pp. 6-7.
trash deleted before imperfect. See J. Hooker to M, 10 October 1857 for Hooker's view that de Vriese's treatment of the Goodeniaceae was 'a most unfortunate attempt'. Ver Huell's illustrations appear in de Vriese (1854).
Please cite as “FVM-67-04-21b,” 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