18/9/79
This day, dear Mr Buchanan,1 I had a visit from Capt Rowan,2 who incidentally told me, that you had issued a volume of lithograms of N. Z. grasses.3 If so, would you spare me kindly a copy? Tell me, what you have of my works, so that I can send you any available yet, wanting there. Did you do anything with the Carex, which Prof Kirk4 thought graminous.
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller
Can Prof Kirk, to whom I wish to be kindly remembered, not give any information on the Water-plant of your Rivers with flowers like Hydropeltis peltata,5 so that good specimens might be obtained in flower & ripe fruit & leaves
Carex
Hydropeltis peltata
John Buchanan (1819-1898).
Presumably F. C. Rowan.
Buchanan (1880). This work is a reissue of a folio size nature-printed edition, produced from photolithography of the original plates and printed at half natural size (p. iv). The full-size plates were issued from December 1877 (p. iii). M was sent a copy: see M to J. Hector, 9 April 1880.
Thomas Kirk.
Not in IPNI, but the name is used in Linnaea (1840), vol. 14, p. 194, in note 6 on recent literature.
Please cite as “FVM-79-09-18b,” 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