To William Thiselton-Dyer   3 July 1894

3/7/94.1

 

The enclosed fern, dear Dr Dyer, may not have reached you before, – at all events I do not remember, that it passed through my hands on any former occasion. It has just arrived from the mountainous part of the interior of S.E. New Guinea, where endemic forms may even exist among ferns there. [It] appears to be best placed into Gymnogramme (Grammitis), though it verges also into the allied genera Meniscium and Antrophyum. If an Asplenium, then the indusium must be very evanescent or reduced. I send you 3 of the four fronds, which I have, and I have named the plant preliminarely Gymnogramme (or Grammitis) orbiformis 2

With regardful remembrance your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

Great deficit in the revenue here at the close of the financial year end of June 1894, though the outlook for the future is more hopeful. So at present, - I fear, it is impossible to create a new position for your brother in law here,3 but I shall continue watchful in his interest.4

 

Meniscium

Antrophyum

Asplenium

Gymnogramme orbiformis

Grammitis orbiformis

1
Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 8 AUG. 94, and annotated in red ink by William Hemsley: Ackd. | List sent | 9.8.94 (neither letter nor list have been found).
2
No published fern name Grammitis orbiformis or Gymngramme orbiformis has been found.
3
Brian Hooker.
4
Annotated in black ink by John Baker below the last line of the text:[with] 14 New Guinea ferns & fungi. Names sent herewith JGB 8/8/94 (list of names not found).

Please cite as “FVM-94-07-03,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-07-03