To Joseph Hooker 1    23 September 1876

23/9/76

 

I have to thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for the presentation copy of your Primery Botany.2 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.3

 

Calyciflorae

Frankeniaceae

Loganiaceae

Monochlamydeae

Plantagineae

Plumbagineae

Thalamiflorae

1
MS black edged: M's brother-in-law, Eduard Wehl, died on 11 February 1876.
2
Hooker (1876a). The copy is no longer in the library at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
3
Plumbagineae followed Frankeniaceae in B79.13.08; the second part of that work, which would have contained Plantagineae and Loganiaceae, was never published. In his other systematic listings, e.g., B86.13.01 and B89.13.12, M followed the scheme proposed here. In Bentham (1863-78), Plantagineae followed the Labiateae and Plumbagineae the Epacrideae. See Maroske (2006).

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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/76-09-23a