[Now that I have heard from Dr Müeller, to whom I forwarded two of your specimens, I am happy to inform you that I was right about the weed which you said had been lately introduced into your garden. It is "Cleome". I was also right in referring your Cape shrub to "Ehretia": it is "E. Hottentotica!" [...]2 The Dr does not refer to your application, so I suppose nothing is settled.]
Cleome
Ehretia Hottentotica
Letter not found. The text given here is an extract from a letter from Woolls to E. P. Ramsay, 13 January 1873 (ML MSS.563/3 E. P. Ramsay papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney). M’s letter is dated on the assumption that Woolls would have written to Ramsay soon after receiving it.
Passage unrelated to M omitted.
Please cite as “FVM-73-01-00b,” 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