Melbourne bot. Garden
5/3/70.
Since some time I am engaged on the examination of the monocotyledonous plants for the flora of Australia,1 dear Mr Gunn, and the wish arose often to see your collection of them, as probably some of the Glumaceae are not yet contained in the "Flora Tasmanica";2 besides much additional information will have to be supplied.
Cladium tetraquetrum J. Hook is certainly Lepidosperma tetragonum Labill, and a true Cladium, as I found out 20 years ago, altho I never published my notes on this subject. Chapelliera pauciflora has nothing to do with Lepidosperma flexuosum and so I could adduce many instances, proving that much among Cyperaceae &c &c has to be revised. I suppose it is not possible to obtain your whole collection on loan? I should have had far more frequent occasion to allude to your plants, had I had access to your specimens. Pray tell me what portions of my Fragmenta & what plates you have, so that I may complete your series.
Trusting you are well I remain your very regardful
Ferd von Mueller.
Chapelliera pauciflora
Cladium tetraquetrum
Cyperaceae
Glumaceae
Lepidosperma flexuosum
Lepidosperma tetragonum
Please cite as “FVM-70-03-05,” 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