To Joseph Hooker   23 March 1872

Melbourne

bot Garden

23/3/72.

 

By the "Northumberland" (Steamship) an other case with plants is consigned today, dear Dr Hooker, for Mr Bentham's use and for supply of eligible duplicates to the Kew collection. From the byefollowing proof you will see, that Tiliaceae are not always without an aril.1

Ruminate seeds (unless they are only exceptionally so) were also not known among Tiliaceae.

With best regards

Ferd. von Mueller.

 
 

Tiliaceae

1
In B72.03.01, pp. 3–4, M rejected, by reference to some plants from the West Indies, the assertion in Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 1, p. 228 that Tiliaceae were 'exarillata'.

Please cite as “FVM-72-03-23,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/72-03-23