26-10-92
The little Triglochin sent by you dear Mr Reader is T. calcitrapa (Hooker) new for Victoria. It is in an excellent fruiting state with well formed seeds.
Let me advise you to study it in comparison with T. centro-carpa1 while flowering. I observed many years ago that T. centrocarpa had all the flowers unistaminate except the terminal one, but I had never an opportunity to subject T calcitrapa to examination
Regardfully yours
Ferd von Mueller
Triglochin calcitrapa
Triglochin centro-carpa
Triglochin centrocarpa
The hyphen is probably an artifact of an over-literal copying of M's having broken the word at the end of a line and inserted a hyphen accordingly.
MS found with a specimen of Triglochin calcitrapa (MEL 2074876), collected by Reader in the Little Desert, Vic, 7 October 1892. MS is marked: 'Copy of a letter sent to Mr Reader by the Baron'.
Reader (1906), when referring to Triglochin turrifera, wrote:
when this name was originally published as new by Mr.Luehmann I came to the conclusion that it must be T. calcitrapa, Hook., and forwarded specimens to him, accompanied by a letter of Baron von Muller's in which the latter identified the specimens as T. calcitrapa, and new for Victoria.
See also Victorian naturalist, vol. 15, p. 74, where a report of the meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria on 10 October 1898 records that Georg Luehmann presented a paper entitled 'Description of Triglochin turrifera, a new Victorian plant'. However, the paper was not published and Luehmann's name is treated as invalid as it was not accompanied by a description. Ewart (1906), p. 43, described the species using the specimen seen by Luehmann, indicating that he was not certain that it was a new species but finally validly publishing the name in Ewart (1930), p. 94, without now mentioning Luehmann or designating a type specimen. See labels and notes on MEL 2057286.
Please cite as “FVM-92-10-26,” 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