To Ralph Tate   4 November 1882

4/11/82.

 

I have at once attended to your interesting rhamnaceous novelty, so that you, dear Professor, may have the manuscript in time yet for the vol. of 1882.1 After the discovery of T. Daltoni in Victoria, we cannot regard the occurrence of an other spec. in S.A. so remarkable. Trymalium can be placed in the genus Cryptandra, as indicated by me in the journ. of the R.S. of N.S.W. XV, 209.2 It will be more classic to write spatulifolium than spathulif. or even spatulaef.3

In 1850 or 1851 I gave in the German Newspaper of Adelaide a "sketch of the vegetation of the Onkaparinga-valley" which little literary effort found its way into several home journals then.4

With best regards

Ferd von Mueller

 

Proofsheets not yet here.

Note on Stringybark interesting

 

Cryptandra

Trymalium Daltoni

 
1
M and Tate described Trymalium wayae in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of SA, vol. 5, p. 80 (December 1882); see B82.14.02.
2
B82.13.08, p. 209.
3
M subsequently had second thoughts about what name to give the new plant; see M to R. Tate, 9 November and 16 November 1882.
4
The publication to which M refers has not been found; no copies of either the Adelaide deutsche Zeitung or the Südaustralische Zeitung from this period survive in Australian libraries. The new plant had been found by Tate in the gorge of the Onkaparinga River, SA.

Please cite as “FVM-82-11-04a,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-11-04a