[Dr. Masters showed drawings of a double flower of Dianella coerulea, in which the ovules were petaloid — the first instance, it is believed, of a similar malformation occurring in Monocotyledons. The plant is the Dianella congesta of Robert Brown,1 and was forwarded by Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller.]
Dianella coerulea
Dianella congesta
Masters reported in detail on M's specimen in 'Dianella: petalody of the ovules', Gardeners' chronicle, 2 May 1885, p. 576, showing that Dainella congesta was 'merely a malformed variety' of D. coerulea.
Letter not found. The text given here is from a report of the meeting of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society held on 10 March 1885, Gardeners' chronicle, 14 March 1885, p. 350. It is dated to January as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been reported at this meeting.
Please cite as “FVM-85-01-00f,” 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