To [Joseph Hooker] 1    June 1879

 
 

I was particularly pleased to see the figure of Villarsia capitata in your splendid Bot. Mag.2

This reminds of years passed bye - of hope, when I had chances to add to the plants of Horticulture abroad far better than now.3

 
 

Villarsia capitata

1
The addressee is attributed on the basis of the editorship of the Botanical magazine at this date; the fragment is dated assuming that the earliest probable date the relevant part of the Botanical magazine could have arrived in Melbourne is mid to late June 1879.
2
Villarsia capitata was illustrated in the Botanical magazine, plate 6420, in the part dated 1 April 1879. The accompanying notes state: 'For the seeds of this pretty plant, the Royal Gardens are indebted to Baron von Mueller'.
3
The sheet is annotated on the back in pencil: 38 | 81 | 91 | 93.

Please cite as “FVM-79-06-00c,” 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/79-06-00c