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From Ferdinand von Mueller to James Hector   25 May 1872

Melbourne bot Garden

25/5/72

Yesterday, dear Dr Hector, I got the acotyledonous plants, kindly forwarded by you from Mr Travers collection,1 and for which interesting addition to my literary and museum material I offer my best thanks.

You will be aware, that all such plants can only microscopically be determined, a task on which I cannot enter within the planting season. I will however undertake the naming within a reasonable time. The genera of most I could have given at once but that will perhaps not be of much avail. In casting my eyes hurriedly over the plants I find that 26 is Cladonia retipora Floerke

45, 46 & 47 are Polyzoa2

42 is Hormosira Banksii Decaisne

34 is a Caulerpa

31 — Conferva Darwini Keutz3

3 — Ballia Brunonia Harvey

with best regards

Ferd von Mueller

Ballia Brunonia

Caulerpa

Cladonia retipora

Conferva Darwini

Hormosira Banksii

1

The remainder of Travers's latest collection from the Chatham Islands; see R. Gore to M, 9 April 1872 (in this edition as 72-04-09a).

2

A zoological group, now Bryozoa.

3

C. darwinii?

4

MS annotation probably by Hector: 'Recd 1/6/72'.

Please cite as “FVM-72-05-25,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/72-05-25