22/8/82
I gave Lythrum Hyssopifolia the "benefit of the doubt" dear Professor, as I noticed it already in my first excursions 1848 in vallies of the Mt Lofty Range,1 but not on the plains. Emex I saw at Holdfast Bay2 in 1847; it is common in W.A. Still perhaps both are best omitted in your list.
Sonneratia is excluded by the recent monographer of Lythraceae, (from whom I had only a letter to day again)3 from that order & readded to Myrtaceae, among which you will find it on Sheet I (now in print).4
Melaleuca armillaris is not an inhabitant of Kang. Isl.5 I believe the var. mentioned by Benth. to be a really good spec.6 & when you come next to Kang. Isl. you will doubtless put us in possession of sufficient material, to insert M. cylindrica RBr. as a novity7 of S. A.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Some omissions have occurred, especially geographically, in transscribing; others are due to the fault of the printer; all can be delt8 with in the addenda at the end of the year. Perhaps you will keep your notes together for me then.
The Rev Tenison Woods nomination Paper9 came not in time for this year.
Emex
Lythraceae
Lythrum Hyssopifolia
Melaleuca armillaris
Melaleuca cylindrica
Myrtaceae
Sonneratia
SA.
SA.
See Koehne (1881), p. 143; letter not found.
See B83.03.04, p. 60.
Kangaroo Island, SA.
Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, p. 146, under M. armillaris, commented that R Brown's herbarium name M. cylindrica for a collection from Kangaroo Island was 'perhaps a distinct species'.
= novelty; see OED.
dealt?
For the Royal Society of London? Tenison Woods was first a candidate for election to the Royal Society in 1883.
Please cite as “FVM-82-08-22c,” 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