Melbourne botan Garden
29/8/71
I am not quite certain, dear Dr Story, whether I acknowledged your kind sending of Glumaceae. The amount of writing in my Department is so enormous, that my friends must be charitable, if shortcomings occur.
The "Bentgrass" is Imperata arundinacea (Cyrillo). It is accidentally omitted in Dr Hookers Flora Tasmanica, it being recorded already in R Browns prodromus1
I was glad to learn, that so much attention had been shown to the Mess. Gulliver in your district.
Let me hope, my revered friend, that your health is as firm as your spirit is bright and happy. That is the wish of your attached friend
Baron Von Mueller
2Plants for Dr. Story
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3 |
Cinchona officinalis |
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1 |
Cork Oak |
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2 |
Assam Tea |
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2 |
Chin. Tea |
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3 |
Deodars.3 |
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3 |
Pin. excelsa4 |
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1 |
Macadamia Queensland Nut5 |
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2 |
Ceratonia |
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1 |
Carya tomentosa (Hickory of N. Amer6 |
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1 |
Boehmeria nivea (Chinese grass cloth plant) |
Boehmeria nivea
Carya tomentosa
Ceratonia
Cinchona officinalis
Macadamia
Pinus excelsa
R. Brown (1810), p. 208.
The following list, which except for the insertions noted is not in M's hand, is filed in the same collection separately from the letter and may not have been enclosed with it, but it is evidently closely related as it matches Story's annotation on the letter — a list headed 'Plants fm Dr Mueller 8/71' — with minor differences. Story has added the comment 'planted on Sugar loaf Kelvn' [i.e. Kelvedon, Tas, where Story lived] after the Cinchona entry and spelled out Pinus.
i.e. Cedrus deodara?
Pinus excelsa.
Queensland Nut added by M.
(Hickory … Amer added by M, with no closing bracket.
Please cite as “FVM-71-08-29,” 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