To Joseph Hooker 1    6 March 1869

Melbourne bot. gard.

6/3 /69

 

By the Steamship Summersetshire,2 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.3

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 Mueller4

 

List of Plants

sent to Dr Hooker, London

Pr. Somersetshire. S.S. March 6th 69.

 

Salsolaceae

1. Salicornia

2. Chenopodium, Blitum

3. Genera minora Salsolacearum5

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 seeds6

 

22. Mesers Groenewegen [& Co] Amsterdam Care of Mesr. Silberra[d] & Sons 5, Harp Lane, London 62 spec. Austral seeds7.

 

Lindley Library vol. V Fragm.8

 

Professor Bentley, London

Collection of 50 spec. of E & W Austral. plants9

 

Dr. Berth. Seeman. London

Samoa plants10

 
 

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

Plant names

1
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).
2
i.e. Somersetshire.
3
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'.
4
The following list that continues on p. 3 of the folio is in an unknown hand, with the exceptions noted below.
5
Salsolacearum in M's hand.
6
There is an ink √ in the LH margin next to this entry.
7
There is an ink √ in the LH margin next to this entry.
8
i.e. Royal Horticultural Society Library. There is an ink √ in the LH margin next to this entry.
9
There is an ink √ in the LH margin next to this entry.
10
Samoa plants in M's hand. The last two lines are bracketed and annotated in D. Oliver's hand: waits at Kew.

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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/69-03-06