14/4/78.
This day, dear Mr Bailey, I got your little package.
The supposed Caesia is Arthropodium paniculatum, RBr, a species not previously found in Q.L.1
As regards the grasses, it will be best to judge for yourself, when you get the copy of vol. VII in a few months.2 You can then adopt the specific & generic limitations either of Mr Bentham or myself. Bentham has been very liberal, too much so, in the admission of both genera & species, & his disposition of the genera is to a great measure artificial but not natural, genera of the closest alliance being often placed far apart into different tribes
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller
Arthropodium paniculatum
Caesia
Please cite as “FVM-78-04-14a,” 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