To Joseph Hooker 1    19 April 1871

19/4/71

 

I am sad, dear Dr Hooker, to learn that our great friend Prof Miquel, has now also left us. What an assiduous and ingenious man, full of friendliness and learning.2

Pray send the few fungi to Berkeley. They may still come in time for his essay. I have to describe a second Australian Phallus of the series of those with a reticulated expanding veil.3

I have just ordered from Dulau the continuation of your icones, which series I hope will proceed quite as speedily as that of your father.4

Pray let me know how you and Bentham are getting on with the "genera",5 in order to enable me to judge, when my supplemental Monochlamydeae must be sent for the Flora6

Your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller7

 

8 Pachynema cannot (after my careful reexamination) include Huttia, but the latter must with Adrastaea form a section of Hibbertia. I have described a second Huttia from Arnhems Land.9

 
 

Adrastaea

Hibbertia

Huttia

Monochlamydeae

Pachynema

Phallus

1
MS annotation: 'B. G. Melbourne) received 17/6/71'.
2
Miquel died on 23 January 1871 .
3
P. vitellinus is the only Phallus described by M listed in the Interactive Catalogue of Australian Fungi. See M to J. Hooker, 16 June 1871 (in this edition as 70-06-16a).
4
W. Hooker (1836-54). J. Hooker revived the title in 1867.
5
Bentham & Hooker (1862–83).
6
Bentham (1863–78).
7
MS annotation below signature by John Smith (1821-88): 'specimen of fern and letter to [given] to Mr Baker 17/6/71 J.S.'
8
The postscript Is written on a separate page and is associated with this letter because of the sequence in which it is bound in the guardbook. This placement is consistent with the publication of the notes on Hibbertia (see below).
9
Neither APNI nor Muir (1979) list a Huttia described by M. M placed Huttia as a section of Hibbertia in B71.07.01.

Please cite as “FVM-71-04-19,” 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 1 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/71-04-19