My dear Sir
This plant is rooted at both ends
In great haste
yours truly
F T. Hester
MS found with a specimen of Dichondra repens (MEL 2272340). MS annotation by M: 'Dichondra repens F'. The catalogue record has no entry for either date or place of collection (AVH, accessed 20 May 2023). However, Frances Hester is known to have collected from 1871 to 1876 in the Blackwood River area in the south-west of WA before she married in 1877 (Maroske & Vaughan (2014)). The letter is dated to 1876 as the latest likely date it was sent.
Please cite as “FVM-76-00-00f,” 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