From Frederick Bailey   17 July 1893

July 17th [189]31

Dear Baron

I have a single fragmentary specimen of what may prove a new Rhodomyrtus but before publishing it as such would like to compare it with your R. cymiflora therefore would you kindly lend or give me a specimen for the purpose?2 I am the more anxious to work up these fragmentary materials that the supplementary volume to the Flora3 should be made as complete as possible —

Yours very truly

F. M. Bailey

 

Rhodomyrtus

1
editorial addition.
2
The specimens received by Bailey from M on 25 July 1893 may have been M’s response to this request (see 93-07-25b in this edition). No Rhodomyrtus species named by Bailey is listed in Bailey (1913), p. 207.
3
A reference to the proposed supplement to Bentham (1863-78) that M had promised to provide after Bailey proposed doing it himself, see F. Bailey to M, March 1893 (in this edition as 93-03-00a), and F. Bailey to M, 14 June 1893. The Gardener's chronicle, 5 August 1893, p. 160 reported the supplement as 'forthcoming' but it was not complete by the time of M's death. See also Clements (1998) and Lucas (2003), pp. 272–4.

Please cite as “FVM-93-07-17,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/93-07-17