20/10/911
Let me thank you, dear Dr Dyer, for your special allusion to me as a contributor of fungs to your grand establishment in the last Bulletin2 - For the latest names-list I am also grateful to you and Dr Cooke,3 and I will see, that you and he are not troubled in future with such widely distributed species as e.g. Polyporus sanguineus, which I named of course myself at once, when I landed in Australia 1847. You can easily understand, that I cannot always with my own hands pack up fungs &c for Kew, especially when hurried with any other heavy extra-work, such as the issue of the new enlarged edition of the Select plants.4
Always, dear Dr Dyer,
regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Remember me kindly to Sir Joseph, when you see him next. I offer you both my best felicitation to Christmas and New Year.
Have Bailey’s recently described plants received perhaps critical comparisons in Kew, such as the supposed Austral Zinnia, the Spermacoces, Trichinium Cryptocaryas &c.5 In most cases I have but the merest fragments from him, He often and too rashly describes from imperfect material the description also being too superficial,6 so that as in the case of the several Cryptocaryas not even the genus can be fixed! If any safe results 7 have been obtained at Kew, could I for the Census benefit from this?8
Cryptocarya
Polyporus sanguineus
Spermacoce
Trichinium
Zinnia
Please cite as “FVM-91-10-20,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-10-20