23/9/76
I have to thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for the presentation copy of your Primery Botany.1 It is an excellent work for beginners, and it is a wonder, that you could find time even for efforts in this direction
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller
In my School-flora the Plumbagineae will take a place next to the Frankeniaceae; and the Plantagineae next to the Loganiaceae. I find no difficulty to dispose of the Monochlamydeae among Thalamiflorae & Calyciflorae.2
Calyciflorae
Frankeniaceae
Loganiaceae
Monochlamydeae
Plantagineae
Plumbagineae
Thalamiflorae
J. Hooker (1876a). The copy is no longer in the library at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
Plumbagineae followed Frankeniaceae in B79.06.04; the second part of that work, which would have contained Plantagineae and Loganiaceae, was never published. In his other systematic listings, e.g., B86.04.05 and B89.12.03, M followed the scheme proposed here. In Bentham (1863-78), Plantagineae followed the Labiateae and Plumbagineae the Epacrideae. See Maroske (2006).
MS black-edged: M's brother-in-law, Eduard Wehl, died on 11 February 1876.
Please cite as “FVM-76-09-23a,” 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