Melbourne
am 3 Sept. 1875.
Ich schuldige1 Ihnen meinen besten Dank, sehr geehrter Herr Blytt, für Ihre Güte mir Ihre schönen Schriften gesandt zu haben, für welche ich dankbar eine Gegengabe mache. Sie scheinen Chenolea hirsuta (Kochia hirsuta Nolte) nicht gefunden zu haben, welche sicher bei Ihnen vorkommt, aber leicht in der kahlen Form mit Suaeda maritima verwechselt werden kann, worüber ich weitläufig in Trimen's Journal vor 3 Jahren berichtet habe.
Können Sie mir gütig sagen, ob unser Freund Ascherson oder ich selbst Priorität haben in der Vereinigung von Blitum mit Chenopodium. Ich nannte vor mehreren Jahren das Blitum virgatum in Caruel's giornale Chenopodium Blitum, unter welchem Namen es auch in meiner Abhandlung über Nutz-Pflanzen in dem Band unserer Acclimation-Society für 1873 vorkommt.
Mit freundlichster Ergebenheit Ihr
Ferd. von Mueller.
Ich besitze Ascherson's Flora von Brandenburg nicht, weiss auch nicht wann solche erschien.
Melbourne,
3 September 1875.
I owe you my best thanks, dear Mr Blytt, for your kindness in having sent me your fine publications,2 for which I gratefully offer a reciprocal gift. You do not seem to have found Chenolea hirsuta (Kochia hirsuta Nolte), which should surely occur in your area, but in its bare form can easily be mistaken for Suaeda maritima; I have written at length about this in Trimen's journal 3 years ago.3
Would you be so kind as to tell me if our friend Ascherson or I has priority in uniting Blitum with Chenopodium?4 Several years ago I changed Blitum virgatum to Chenopodium blitum in Caruel's journal,5 and it is also found under this name in my publication on useful plants in the volume for 1873 of our Acclimatisation Society.6
With my kindest respects your
Ferd. von Mueller.
I do not own Ascherson's Flora von Brandenburg,7 nor do I know when it was published.
Blitum virgatum
Chenolea hirsuta
Chenopodium blitum
Kochia hirsuta
Suaeda maritima
schulde?
Although there are no inscriptions, it is probable that Blytt sent the copies of Blytt (1869) and Blytt (1870) that are still in the Library at MEL, which also holds the second (1874) and third (1876) volumes of M. Blytt & A. Blytt (1861-76); the library lacks the first volume (1861).
See B73.06.01.
Ascherson's reduction was in Ascheron (1864), p. 572.
Under the heading 'Lavori del Dr Mueller sulle Chenopodiacee', Nuovo giornale botanico italiano, vol. 2 (1870), p. 314, there is a note of an undated letter, M to T. Caruel, 1870 (in this edition as 70-06-00b), in which the change is reported, but without giving a detailed rationale.
See B74.13.06, p. 60.
Ascherson (1864). There is an incomplete copy at MEL, but it is not known when it was added to the Library.
Please cite as “FVM-75-09-03a,” 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