To Joseph Hooker1    3 May 1877

3/5/77.

 

I thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for your two letters.2

I believe, that Eucalyptus amygdalina is hardier than E. globulus, as it attains to much higher elevations in the mountains. Lord Stair might try your alpine Tasmanian species.3

As you mention the progress of the “genera”,4 I like to remark, that I united Macadamia with Brabejum, fragm. VIII, 150;5 so far as my material goes you have perhaps better S. African material than myself; I am not quite sure about the ovules of Brabejum. Guevina is also near, as 4 or 2 glands occur also in Adenostephanus & Persoonia.

I think, that I have written already about the sending of the case with ferns for the 7th vol. of the Australian flora.6

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

What is the Canadian “She[ac]k”7

 

Adenostephanus

Brabejum

Eucalyptus amygdalina

Eucalyptus globulus

Guevina

Macadamia

Persoonia

 
1

Annotated to left of date by Hooker: And.

Annotated to left of text: Eucalyptus amygdalina sen[t] | [to Ld. Stair | Col[l] Playfair | Prince of Travancore’.

2
J. Hooker to M, 13 December 1876 and M to J. Hooker, 11 January 1877 (in this edition as 77-01-11a).
3
See J. Hooker to M, 13 December 1876.
4
Bentham and Hooker (1862—83).
5
B74.03.01, under Helicia verticillata.
6
M to G. Bentham, 12 February 1877 and 13 March 1877.
7
Annotated below last line of letter: Sheoak | Cannot be made out.

Please cite as “FVM-77-05-03,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/77-05-03