11/11/79.
I like to ask you, dear Mr Buchanan,1 whether you have seen the quarto-publication "Minnesskrift" of the centenary jubilee of the phyiographic Society of Lund,2 which appeared in 1878, but has only just reached me. In it Phyllachne (Forstera) subulata3 is raised to a new genus as Oreostylidium by Dr Berggren,4 and he describes and figures besides new species of Abrotanella, Dracophyllum, Plantago, Kelleria, Thelymitra, Isolepis, Cladium, Oreobolus, Carex, Poa (2 sp, some of which seem to me mere varieties of known sp. If you have no copy of this work in your Wellington Institution, I can send you mine on loan. You like of course to be posted up in the literature of N.Z plants & might wish to give notices on these supposed or real additions to the Flora of your islands in the next volume of the Institute.
Dr Agardhs new list of N.Z. Algae I have sent to Dr Hector.5 It brings also some novelties.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.
It does not seem that he got your new Carex altho' his Carex comans comes near to it. His Poa pusilla is only half an inch high.6
Abrotanella
Carex comans
Cladium
Dracophyllum
Forstera subulata
Isolepis
Kelleria
Oreobolus
Oreostylidium
Phyllachne subulata
Plantago
Poa pusilla
Thelymitra
John Buchanan (1819-1898).
i.e. physiographic: see Fysiografiska Sällskapet (1878).
In B73.04.02, pp. 39-41, M had recommended, on priority grounds, that the genus usually known by Linnaeus's name, Forstera, should be given the name published earlier by the Forsters, Phyllachne. In B78.06.01, he described as Phyllachne subulata a species named by J. Hooker as Stylidium subulata.
Berggren (1878).
List not found.
MS summary, probably by Buchanan: 'Phyllachne (Forstera[)] raised to a new Genus by Berggren (Oreostylidium[).] Offers the lone [sic] of the vol. Sends Agardhs new list of Algae to Dr Hector'.
Please cite as “FVM-79-11-11a,” 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