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p.2
259. |
Scleranthus mniaroides extends to Mount Kos[z]iusco in N.S. Wales.3 |
260. |
Scleranthus pungens occurs in the desert on the Murray within N. S. Wales territory.4 |
263. |
Rumex crispus and the other introduced species are wanting a star.5 They are all common in many localities now. |
264. |
Rumex Brownii one of the most common of all S. Australian and Victorian plants6 |
265 |
Rumex Bidens common in many places of Victoria & S. Australia, also N.S. Wales on the Murray river7 |
268. |
Polygonum strigosum grows on the Upper Murray River in N.S. Wales & Victoria, also throughout Gippsland. It was impossible to gather specimens of such a common plant from its many localities.8 |
268 |
Polygonum prostratum Common on the Murray River in N.S. W. & Victoria.9 |
269 |
Polygonum minus Common in N.S. Wales, Victoria and S. Australia in many parts10 |
272. |
Muhlenbeckia should be written Muehlenbeckia, in honor of Dr H.G. Muehlenbeck of Muehlhousen in Alsatia, where he largely added to the cryptogamic plants known from there.11 |
276. |
Muehlenbeckia Cunninghami on most of the desert swamps and often in vast abundance in the interior. Hence the appellati[ve] of Polygonum swamps, given to all these inundated places by the explorers. The species stands closely to M. ephedroides from N. Z.12 |
279. |
Pisonia aculeata. My exposition of the three Australian species, P. aculeata, P. inermis, P. excelsa in the Fragmenta (vi, 197-198) is overlooked.13 |
285 |
Daphnandra micrantha. The fruit is fully described in a note appended to my plants of Victoria p 220.14 |
286. |
Mollinedia Ruiz is by misprint rendered Ring. |
288. |
Kibara. I cannot believe that we have four really distinct species15 |
310 |
Cassytha glabella grows in many parts of South Austr & Vict so also Cassytha pubescens.16 |
Among Proteaceae I miss the genera Molloya and Strangea in the general table.17 The former is to me not more known that it was to Meissner,18 but Strangea seems in my opinion very distinct as regards its fruits. Ba[i]llon in his histoire de plants19 does not allude to Strangea. Dryandra I regard only as a subgenus of Banksia, there being no more difference in the inflorescence than in Isopogon.20
p. 284 |
Atherosperma moschata has been found recently by Mr [C S] Walter at Cape Howe within the territory of N.S. Wales.21 |
p. 292 |
Piptocalyx may be menispermaceous.22 |
p. 302. |
Endiandra virens is described fragm. II, 90.23 |
I had not Molina's work for reference to Peumus. Meissner ought to have quoted it not so absolutely.24
I anticipate that Brogniarts25 new proteaceous genus from N. Caledonia26 has dissolved itself in Helicia & so others in likewise formerly known genera.
How unfortunate the disruption of the Curvembryoneae is, appears very striking by the isolation of the Paronychieae.27 We can have no truely natural system, so long as the chaotic mass of Monochlamydeae remains together. With Alex Braun & others I have always advocated the distribution of the Monochlamydeae, except Coniferae & some allied orders, among the other Dicotyledonar plants28
Atherosperma moschata
Banksia
Cassytha glabella
Cassytha pubescens
Coniferae
Curvembryoneae
Daphnandra micrantha
Dryandra
Endiandra virens
Helicia
Isopogon
Kibara
Mollinedia
Molloya
Monochlamydeae
Muehlenbeckia Cunninghami
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides
Muhlenbeckia
Paronychieae
Peumus
Piptocalyx
Pisonia aculeata
Pisonia excelsa
Pisonia inermis
Polygonum minus
Polygonum prostratum
Polygonum strigosum
Proteaceae
Rumex Bidens
Rumex Brownii
Rumex crispus
Scleranthus mniaroides
Scleranthus pungens
Strangea
Please cite as “FVM-70-09-00,” 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/70-09-00