To George Bentham   19 May 1869

19/5/69

 

The enclosed Teucrium, dear Mr Bentham, may be actually your T. sessiliflorum in an abnormal state or in its highest developed form, and I may have erred in uniting T. sessilifolium1 & T. trifidum of Schl.2 As my Labiatae are in Kew, I send this, so that you may deal with it finally.

I am suffering from a deepseated and thus very obstinate bronchitis, which, if it becomes chronic, as still the cool season is before me may become serious, especially to one with such tendency to phthisis.

I hope you are well. I will do what I can in my little sparetime to push the Monocotyledoneae through my preliminary work & much has been done towards it in past years.

Should you receive any plants from Goyders Expedition,3 then pray bear in mind that I shall also have a share with a view of examining such as may be new.

These new ones, if any, will be limited in number and be best here worked up, I should think, unless such as pertain to orders just in your hands.

With kind regards

your

Ferd von Mueller

 

I have a good deal of manuscript in the printers hand for the 7. vol. of Fragm.

 

Teucrium sessiliflorum

Teucrium sessilifolium

Labiatae

Monocotyledoneae

1
Error for T. sessiliflorum ?
2
B68.02.03, p. 110; Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, p. 135 concurred in uniting the two.
3
Goyder led an expedition in 1869-70 to survey the Northern Territory and to select a site for a coastal township; see Goyder (1869). See also J. Blackmore to M, 26 May 1869 (in this edition as 69-05-26b).

Please cite as “FVM-69-05-19,” 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 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/69-05-19