To Joseph Hooker   22 April 1870

22/4/70

 

I hoped, dear Dr Hooker, to have sent by the clipper sailing this week, to you a supplemental case of Monochlamydeae for Mr Bentham’s use, but as I have not yet over come the difficulties in my department, — I fell ill under anxieties and lost so much time in defending my position against insult and misrepresentations, that really I could not send it off yet, but mean to do so within the next weeks. It will contain also among other things some fresh seed-collections for Mr Verd[o]n.

The majority of the Sarracenias did arrive safely and are a great acquisition as a curiosity. It is just 100 years since Capt Cook came to our shores, first to what is now East Gipps Land

Menyanthes & Caltha are florishing in my cold tank. What splendid acquisitions, if I succeed to naturalize them in our forest rivulets, as I did with the large American Blackberry.1

Always your regardful

Ferd von Mueller.

Caltha

Menyanthes

Monochlamydeae

Sarracenia

Willis (1972) does not inicate any naturalised species of Menyanthes and Caltha in Victoria.

Please cite as “FVM-70-04-22b,” 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 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/70-04-22b