To Joseph Hooker   12 April 1881

12/4/811

 

You asked me repeatedly, dear Sir Joseph, for seeds of Epacrideae.2 Herewith a few. But the seeds of drupaceous Epacrideae must be enucleated, as the small seeds could not burst the hard putamen. Nature helps in this way, by the bush-fires, which scorch the endocarp. I found a rasp the best implement to set free the seeds.3

 

Epacrideae

1
MS annotation: 'JS'.
2
See, for example, J. Hooker to M, 11 July 1869 and May 14 1870, and M's responses to letters not found, for example, M to J. Hooker, September 1869. No such request occurs in surviving letters from Hooker in 1879 or 1880.
3
There is no signature, but the letter is in M's handwriting.

Please cite as “FVM-81-04-12a,” 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 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/81-04-12a