24/10/93
What you just sent, dear Mr Rodway, is Isoetopsis graminifolia, which is not likely an introduced plant, considering its companions there with you. We have under similar isolation also Euphorbia Drummondi in Tasmania. So it must be regarded as a remarkable addition to the Tasmanian Flora. Doubtless you will bring this under the notice of the next meeting of your R.S.1
I may mention, that 3 years before Turczaninow published this from Drummonds W.A collections,2 I had (in 1848) recognized this as a new genus, when exploring in S.A., but my manuscript at the then war-time3 was allowed to be left unpublished, so that Turczaninow anticipated me. The name, which I had given, was Rhizocephalum.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
Plants, so small, are readily over looked.
Eremophila Drummondi
Isoetopsis graminifolia
Rhizocephalum
Rodway reported his discovery of the plant at the meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania on 14 November 1893, and included it in Rodway (1894), p. 180, quoting M's opinion that it was endemic.
Turczaninow (1851). p. 175 erected Isoetopis.
Presumably the war between Denmark and the German states over Schleswig-Holstein. See also M to R. Tate, 22 November 1879, where M attributes the failure to publish his manuscript to its loss in a shipwreck and 'some delays' in the replacement's reaching Germany.
Please cite as “FVM-93-10-24a,” 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