From Carl Wilhelmi and Theodor Mueller1    24 August 1864

Memorandum

Melbourne

Botanical Museum

24 Aug. 1864.

 

We the undersigned unpacked on the 8th of August two boxes of dried plants which were sent from the Royal Gardens of Kew to the botanical Museum of Melbourne, the contents of one of the boxes being very much damaged by ingress of water vize:

One parcel of Algerian and Teneriffa2 plants totally destroyed and one also of Teneriffa plants much damaged.

 

One parcel of Uncinia all plants mildewed

One Do. Indigofera

One Do. Bossiaea

One Do. Swainsonia

One Do. Phaseolus

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Very much damaged by mildew
 

One Do. Cassia oligophylla

One Do. " tropicae partim.

One Do. " Australis partim.

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more or less destroyed by mildew.
 

and one parcel containing, Flemingia, Vigna, Atylosia, Rynchosia and Pycnospora, also much damaged by mildew.

Carl Wilhelmi.

Theodor Mueller.

 

Atylosia

Bossiaea

Cassia Australis

Cassia oligophylla

Cassia tropicae

Flemingia

Indigofera

Phaseolus

Pycnospora

Rynchosia

Swainsonia

Uncinia

Vigna

1
Enclosed with M to G. Bentham, 25 August 1864.
2
German name of Teneriffe.

Please cite as “FVM-64-08-24a,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/64-08-24a