To Joseph Hooker1    14 October 1869

14/10/69

 

Would it be possible, dear Dr Hooker, that I could be obliged with a box ful of roots of Veratrum viride? Perhaps Prof Asa Gray would help in the matter.2 This plant in its marvellous effect on the circulation prevents the fibrin-deposits in aneurism & reduces these in an extraordinar manner. I would like therefore to cultivate the plant in Australia. Perhaps Veratrum album might be had at the same time. Pray do not forget a few roots of Eriophorum polystachy[ar]um.3

I wonder how my Todea arrived.

Always your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

Eriophorum polystachyarum

Todea

Veratrum album

Veratrum viride

1
MS annotation: 'Sent'.
2
See M to J. Hooker, 11 August 1869 (in this edition as 69-08-11b).
3
E. polystachyum — a name not in current use, but in, for example, Jones (1875). p. 578 — or E. polystachion, M's spelling in B80.04.05, p. 15?

Please cite as “FVM-69-10-14,” 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/69-10-14