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.1
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.2
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.3
Pray let me know how you and Bentham are getting on with the "genera",4 in order to enable me to judge, when my supplemental Monochlamydeae must be sent for the Flora5
Your regardful
Ferd. von Mueller6
7Pachynema 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.8
Adrastaea
Hibbertia
Huttia
Monochlamydeae
Pachynema
Phallus
Miquel died on 23 January 1871.
The only Phallus known to have been described by M, P. vitellinus, was described in B70.12.03, p. 122. See M to J. Hooker, 16 June 1871 (in this edition as 70-06-16a).
W. Hooker (1836-54). J. Hooker revived the title in 1867.
Bentham & Hooker (1862–83).
Bentham (1863–78).
MS annotation below signature by John Smith (1821-88): 'specimen of fern and letter to [given] to Mr Baker 17/6/71 J.S.'
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).
APNI (accessed 24 December 2019) does not list a Huttia described by M. However, M placed Huttia as a section of Hibbertia in B71.07.01, p. 123, within which he described as new Hibbertia goyderi, collected by Schultz (i.e. Frederick Schultze) from Port Darwin.
MS annotation: 'B. G. Melbourne) received 17/6/71'.
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