Melbourne bot. gard.
6/3 /69
By the Steamship Summersetshire,1 dear Dr Hooker, you will receive the 50th case of Museum-plant. It contains mainly Salsolaceae, therefore the rest of the Curvembryonatae, with which Mr Bentham desires to commence the 5th vol. The Thymeleae and Rest of Proteaceae will follow early. Pray do not think, that I wish to burden in an unreasonable manner my commissions on you[r] department, when I venture to send you a package of Museum plants for Utrecht or Leiden (i.e. for Prof Miquel)
The fact is, that the case was not full the last morning, on which I could dispatch it to the Steamer. So I plunged the packages for Miquel in, to fill up the case. I suppose you have occasionally things to send to Leyden or Utrecht. if so, pray oblige me by forwarding mine along with yours; other wise pray hand it over to Mess Silberrad for transmission to Holland.
The Lichens I would like sent to the Rev Mr Leighton, to whom I owe a return sending for a splendid lot of British Lichens.2
One specimen of each species I would beg to get back. Kew can besides be well supplied as there are generally triplicates.
Always your
Ferd von Mueller3
List of Plants
sent to Dr Hooker, London
Pr. Somersetshire. S.S. March 6th 69.
Salsolaceae
1. Salicornia
2. Chenopodium, Blitum
3. Genera minora Salsolacearum4
4. Kochia partim
5. " villosa
6. Sclerolaena, Euchylaena
7. Anisacantha
8. Atriplex I
9. " II
10. Monochl. Supplt. sine Euphorb. Proteaceis &
Thymeleis
11." " II
12. Proteaceae Supplt
13. Euphorbiaceae Suppl.
14. Lichene Novae Angliae
15. Myoporinae Verbenaceae
16. Hakea
17. Verbenaceae Suppl.
18. Labiatae, Plantagineae & Selagineae Suppl.
19. Dryandra comosa, horrida et affinis
20. " plumosa et affinis, Dryandra serra [&] carduacea et affinis
Professor Miquel, Utrecht
21. 320 spec. E & W. Austral. dried plants
an added collect. of plants &
120 spec. Austr. & Cape seeds5
22. Mesers Groenewegen [& Co] Amsterdam Care of Mesr. Silberra[d] & Sons 5, Harp Lane, London 62 spec. Austral seeds6.
Lindley Library vol. V Fragm.7
Professor Bentley, London
Collection of 50 spec. of E & W Austral. plants8
Dr. Berth. Seeman. London
Samoa plants9
Anisacantha
Atriplex
Blitum
Chenopodium
Dryandra carduacea
Dryandra comosa
Dryandra horrida
Dryandra plumosa
Dryandra serra
Euchylaena
Euphorbiaceae
Hakea
Kochia villosa
Labiatae
Lichene
Monochlamydeae
Myoporinae
Plantagineae
Proteaceae
Salicornia
Salsolaceae
Sclerolaena
Selagineae
Thymeleae
Verbenaceae
i.e. Somersetshire.
The Lichens ... British Lichens' is marked in the margin with a line. MS annotation: 'Sent Dr Leighton. Wrote [illegible]/69 DO [i.e. Daniel Oliver] with extract abt Lichens'.
The following list that continues on p. 3 of the folio is in an unknown hand, with the exceptions noted below.
Salsolacearum in M's hand.
There is an ink √ in the LH margin next to this entry.
There is an ink √ in the LH margin next to this entry.
i.e. Royal Horticultural Society Library. There is an ink √ in the LH margin next to this entry.
There is an ink √ in the LH margin next to this entry.
Samoa plants in M's hand. The last two lines are bracketed and annotated in D. Oliver's hand: waits at Kew.
MS annotation: 'Box recd 18.v.69 | Answd [Jul] 9th'. See J. Hooker to M, 9 July 1869. See also M to J. Hooker 6 March 1869, second letter (in this edition as 69-03-06a).
Please cite as “FVM-69-03-06,” 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