To Ralph Tate   29 May 1882

29/5/82.

 

In writing to you, dear Prof. Tate, I forgot to mention, that Gregorys Report on the North Australian Expedition is contained in the Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of 1858.1

You will see now yourself, that it best to give up the Monochlamydeae, when you compare Polycarpaea with Gomphrena (&c &c), which Bentham & Hooker still keep far asunder.

I will in a few days write something more about several of the plants left unexamined.2

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

The "Quinintree" of which you sent the capsules = Petalostigma quadriloculare. It contains no Quinin.3

 

Gomphrena

Monochlamydeae

Petalostigma quadriloculare

Polycarpaea

 
Gregory (1858). The previous letter in the file is M to R. Tate, 12 May 1882 (in this edition as 85-05-12b). It seems from that letter that Tate was reviewing proofs of M’s census of Australian plant species (B83.03.04), no doubt — in view of his own expertise — chiefly focusing on SA plants on which Gregory’s report would have been highly relevant, the NT being administered at the time as part of SA.
M to R. Tate, 16 June 1882 (in this edition as 82-06-16a)?
After he erected the genus in B57.13.01, p. 17, M supplied samples of the bark of Petalostigma quadriloculare to G. Wittstein that were analysed by Falco (1866).

Please cite as “FVM-82-05-29a,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-05-29a