To William Thiselton-Dyer   10 May 1892

10/5/92.1

 

Allow me, dear Dr Dyer, to send you specimens from a cultivated plant of Correa Baeuerleni,2 now flowering here. As this is one of the rarest plants of Australia, and as it is of singular structural interest, you and Prof Oliver may like perhaps to figure it in the “icones plantarum”, where no Australian plant had a place for a long time.3 You will have the printed description of the plant from an extraslip, sent to Kew; or you will find it in the proceedings of the L.S. of N.S.W. IX, 960.4 It occurs solely on the Upper Clyde,5 and even there only along the River a limited length of the banks. Perhaps you like, to remark on the occasion, that several of the most local plants in Australia are contained in the Order Rutaceae, altho’ of course some few representations of other orders are here restricted also to extremely limited areas. May I mention, that altho’ you kindly send a copy of the icones to my Departm Library here, as the work proceeds, I regularly subscribe also to the work through Dulau & Co.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

I still hope, that the two Assistants will be kept in my establishment; they are not yet transferred, but an other one is. The work is very heavy here, specially as such great rural interests are involved in a clime like this.

As regards Australian and Papuan geographic names, you will find most of them easily in Blackie’s imperial Gazeteer, which splendid work I often consult for extraaustralian geographic names of obscure places.6

 

Correa Baeuerleni

Rutaceae

Annotated in black ink by D. Oliver: I have taken the Correa to figure & made necessary extracts referring to it from this letter. D.O. 14.VI. 92 Sir F. M. sent us excellent specimens in 1884; and in red ink by W. Thiselton-Dyer:And 8/7/92 (letter not found).
C. Bauerlenii?
In the text accompanying Plate 2245 of Oliver (1891-95), vol. 23, Oliver wrote that M ‘sent excellent flowering specimens … in 1884 … and recently cultivated specimens from Port Phillip’, and quoted passages from this letter.
B85.13.24, p. 960.
Clyde River, NSW.
There were a number of editions of this work. The library of the RBG Melbourne holds Blackie (1878).

Please cite as “FVM-92-05-10b,” 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 30 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/92-05-10b