Dec 18/68
Dear Dr Mueller
I have forwarded your despatches to the Hort. Socy as you desire & do not doubt but that they may be found useful for their Journal.1
Thanks for the Contributions to Phytography of V.DL.2 which I was very glad to get. I do not at all, as you suppose regard you as a poacher on my manor.3 My Tasmanian work is over long ago & with it all claim to consideration on that score. You have marked Polycarpon with an asterisk but will find it at p. cvii.4 Why do you doubt its being only naturalized?5 Veronica peregrina & Gypsophila tubulosa are also undoubtedly introductions6
Please fill up enclosed card7 and return it. — I have hung Leichardt's portrait in the Museum.8
This mail takes out to you a bag of seed of the Zizania aquatica. They say it takes long to germinate. Plant it where birds cannot get at it.
Yrs
J D Hooker
Gypsophila tubulosa
Polycarpon
Veronica peregrina
Zizania aquatica
See M to J. Hooker, 10 October 1868 (in this edition as 68-10-10a). B70.13.02 was read at the meeting of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society on 15 June 1869.
Van Diemen's Land (i.e. Tasmania). See B69.13.03.
See M to J. Hooker, 10 October 1868 (in this edition as 68-10-10a).
J. Hooker (1860), in a list of naturalized plants, pp. cv-cix in the 'Introductory essay', also published separately as J. Hooker (1859a).
See entry for Polycarpon titraphyllum (sic: tetraphyllum), B69.13.03, p. 9, where M wrote that it ‘may not be originally indigenous’; asterisks in M's list indicated plants not in J. Hooker (1860).
M marked both Veronica peregrina and Gysophila tubulosa with an asterisk.
Not identified.
There are two portraits of Leichhardt at Kew, but it has not been possible to determine which, if either, is the one mentioned here. One is a profile wood engraving by Samuel Calvert closely similar to the widely reproduced 1846 lithograph by Charles Rodius; see Australian National Portrait Gallery, catalogue number 20004.2 (url: https://www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2004.2/dr-ludwig-leichhardt). The other, an engraving in a classical heroic three-quarter-face pose, is unsigned and, as an indistinct advertisement includsing the word 'Albury' is showing through, is evidently from a newspaper or magazine. The source has not been identified.
MS embossed with seal of the 'Royal Gardens Kew'.
Please cite as “FVM-68-12-18,” 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