18/6/94.
What a "quid pro quo" dear Dr Dyer with the Eurycles!1 I must write again to the Magistrate of Thursday Island,2 begging for further searches after the rare Eurycles alba, as I called it in the "Census"3 on accord of its broad leaves, altho I am well aware the leaves would not suffice as reason for the generic transfer, because Allium ursinum which I collected fully 50 years ago in the Dukedom of Schleswig has also broad leaves in that genus.
Without wishing to be intrusive, may I suggest that the Calostemma album be figured in your "icones plantarum"? So perhaps also the apparently extremely rare Xanthorrhoea Pumilio. Neither of the two I have ever seen.4
Best thanks for sending the finishing part of the 6th vol. of the Flora of British India.5 I thanked Sir Joseph also6 The Cyperaceae were "my first love". Mr Clarke treated them thoroughly for India;7 and that must have involved very trying exertions through a long time.
With continued friendship
your
Ferd von Mueller.
Allium ursinum
Calostemma album
Cyperaceae
Eurycles alba
Xanthorrhoea pumilio
See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 December 1891 (in this edition as 91-12-18a).
John Douglas.
B89.12.03, p. 196.
There is a red pencil line against this paragraph.
Calostemma album was illustrated 'at the suggestion of Sir F. v Mueller' in Oliver (1891-5), vol. 24, plate 2371, using a specimen collected by Robert Brown and described by him in R. Brown (1810), p. 298. Xanthorrhoea pumilio was not illustrated.
J. Hooker (1875-97); the final part of vol. 6 was published in April 1894 (TL2).
See M to J. Hooker, 18 June 1894.
C. B. Clarke (1894).
Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 24. JUL. 94.
Please cite as “FVM-94-06-18a,” 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