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 Arran2 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
Please cite as “FVM-67-08-07,” 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