To Joseph Hooker1    November 1881

Perhaps you & Bentham have not the first edit of Linné's syst. nat (of 1735).2 I find at p. 9, that he has Lens as a genus, though (of course) the name only. Still it is entitled to be mentioned thus far as generic authority3

I have quoted the first edition in my census of Austral plant-genera, now in type,4 wherever it had priority. "Sassafras" occurs also at p. 9.

I was greatly pleased with the figure of Micraira5 I subscribe to all your & Bentham's publications, Bot. Mag., Genera, icones, &c &c for my private library.

 

Lens

Micraira

Sassafras

 
 
1
Correspondent identified by the reference to Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), and to Bentham. Dated to late 1881 by the reference to figure of Micraira,and to B82.13.08 being in press.
2
Linnaeus (1735).
3
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 1, p. 525 attribute Lensto Grenier and Godron (1848-56), vol. 1, p. 476.
4
B82.13.08.
5
Micraira subulifolia was illustrated in Hooker’s Icones plantarum, vol. xiv (1881), t. 136, p. 43.

Please cite as “FVM-81-11-00,” 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 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/81-11-00