To Joseph Hooker   5 April 1885

5/4/85

 

Would you kindly cause, dear Sir Joseph, Rutidosis Brownii1 to be reexamined, to see whether it has subulate or truncate stigmata. In the former case I should think it identical with Phacellothrix cladochaeta.2

Undoubtedly you figured the true Panax Murrayi;3 a full account of flowers, fruits and even the tall palmlike stem is given in the fragm. II, 106, VII, 96.4 — Like the two Helmholtzias it is not likely belonging to any other region than that of eastern littoral Australia.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Helmholtzia

Panax Murrayi

Phacellothrix cladochaeta

Rutidosis Brownii

1
MS annotation: '23[H]'.
2
I should … Phacellothrix is marked with a line in the margin. MS annotations by D. Oliver: noted on sheet and Our single specimen is a very bad one. I find the style-branch [uninjured] — papillose & subulate, certainly not truncate. Phacellothrix we have not, at least not laid in D.O. and by W. Thiselton-DyerAnd 22/5/85. Letter not found.
3
Botanical magazine, 1885, 111: t. 6798.
4
B60.11.03; B70.04.01.

Please cite as “FVM-85-04-05a,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/85-04-05a