To William Carruthers   28 April 1891

28/4/91.

 

Only some few lines this time, dear Mr Carruthers, as I have been overwhelmed with extrawork for Sir Thomas Elders Central Australian and for Baron von Nordenskiolds south-polar Expedition both originating through myself. Thus I have not been able for the last 2 weeks to write more for the Journal of the excellent Mr Britten.1

I like this time merely to ask at what page in Ray's methodus of 1682 the word Monocotyledoneae does appear.2

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Monocotyledoneae

1
Journal of botany, British and foreign.
2
See M to A. Gray, 20 February 1884. Ray (1682) included a discussion of the characters of seeds (pp. 1–19), but not until the 1703 edition of the work did he include ‘Dicotyledones’ and ‘Monocotyledones’ as subdivisions in the section ‘De Herbis’; the subdivision was not made in the section dealing with the second primary group, ‘De Arboribus et Fruticibus’. For a discussion of Ray’s approach and a comparison of the 1682 and 1703 classifications, see Vines (1913), especially pp. 28–39.

Please cite as “FVM-91-04-28,” 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/91-04-28