From Joseph Hooker   7 August 1867

Aug 7/67¹

My dear Mueller

The Wellesley has arrived & brought your case with the Goodeniaceae all safe — many thanks for the Xerotes basket, we have none so new and nice.

Your Arran ² plants shall be named, they are not all from that Island, which Isld I know well & which does not contain a single rare plant — some are Edinburgh plants I should think.

Thanks too for the seeds of Podocarpus drouynianus. I very much hope that they may grow as we have not the plant.

I never examined Nuytsia fruit. The 4 cotyledons are curious, but I think shown not unfrequently in some Loranthaceae — I speak from Memory however

Bentham has gone to the Continent for 2 months, he is now on his way to visit von Martius

The Sphaeria on a Caterpillar which you sent is gone to Berkeley who says that it most resembles S. Robertsii but that its fructification is imperfect & the species cannot hence be diagnosed.

The Arcidium is probably new — B. is now at work on all the Australian Fungi.

How many Anigozanthi do you cultivate? — We have but two. Of your pretty bulbs several are flowering, Pterostylis, Diuris &c but unluckily all the species are already figured in The Magazine.³

Ever sincerely Yrs

Jos D Hooker

Anigozanthus

Arcidium

Diuris

Goodeniaceae

Loranthaceae

Nuytsia

Podocarpus drouynianus

Pterostylis

Sphaeria Robertsii

Xerotes