Melbourne
12/6/74.
With the steamship "Northumberland" a large case with Monocotyledoneae is at last despatched to you last week, dear Mr Bentham, as usual under Dr Hooker's care. The contents are:
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Ripogonum |
1 |
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Smilax |
1 |
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Commelynaceae |
1 |
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Anguillaria |
1 |
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Bartlingia (Laxmannia Br) |
1 |
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Milanthaceae partim |
1 |
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Cordyline & Dracaena |
1 |
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Eustrephus et Geitonoplesium |
1 |
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Sowerbeae, Stawellia, |
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Hodgsoniala, Johnsonia, Allonia |
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Arnocrinum — |
1 |
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Herpolirion, Stypandra & Agrostocrinum |
1 |
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Tricoryne |
1 |
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Astelia & Milligania |
1 |
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Caesia |
1 |
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Thysanotus |
1 |
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Dianella |
4 |
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Borya |
1 |
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Pontederiaceae |
1 |
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Arthropodium & Bulbine |
1 |
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Blandfordia, Drymophila & Asparagus |
1 |
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Liliaceae suppl. |
2 |
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Xanthorrhoea |
1 |
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Total |
25 |
Besides 8 parcels of Xanthorrhoeae, & 1 of Dasypogon.
I added also a Parcel of plants from Lord Howe's Island, (2 sets) from Fullagars Expedition; please ask Dr Hooker, if he could afford to purchase them for any price he thinks fit, as the collector is in very poor circumstances.1
I shall soon send an other case. The genus Panicum I revised lately;2 so far as Australia is concerned. I verely believe that the species in Steudels3 work must be reduced ⅔ or ¾
Altho there are many additions to R Browns in my collections, still after due reduction I shall not likely be able to bring the whole up to the original number of R Brown's
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
I was was invited also to Florence,4 but it was impossible under existing circumstances to leave here. Helpless as I am even in manual work to a large extent, I cannot send any of my new plants now to Kew;5 the selecting would involve many weeks work, but as I intend to issue a supplemental volume I will then successively put up also specimens of all new plants for Kew next year.
Agrostocrinum
Allania
Anguillaria
Arthropodium
Asparagus
Astelia
Arnocrinum
Bartlingia
Blandfordia
Borya
Bulbine
Commelynaceae
Cordyline
Caesia
Dasypogon.
Dianella
Dracaena
Drymophila
Eustrephus
Geitonoplesium
Herpolirion
Hodgsoniola
Johnsonia
Laxmannia
Liliaceae
Melanthaceae
Milligania
Monocotyledoneae
Panicum
Pontederiaceae
Ripogonum
Smilax
Sowerbaea
Stawellia
Stypandra
Thysanotus
Tricoryne
Xanthorrhoea
Please cite as “FVM-74-06-12,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/74-06-12