From Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate   4 Nov 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 interesting5

Cryptandra

Trymalium Daltoni

See R. Tate to M, 31 October 1882. M and Tate described Trymalium wayae in B82.14.02, corrected to T. wayii in a Corrigendum in Transactions and proceedings and report of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol 3 (1883), p. 109.

B82.07.05, p. 209.

M subsequently had second thoughts about what name to give the new plant; see M to R. Tate, 9 November 1882, and M to R. Tate, 16 November 1882.

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.

See R. Tate to M, 31 October 1882.

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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-11-04a