3 Elizabeth Street
Hobart Town
Tasmania
Oct 2. 1877
My dear Baron.
Will you kindly tell me what is the Potamogeton marinus L. of your Census1? I have no specimens, & our Library is so badly off for Botanical works, that I have no means of reference. Is it closely allied to P. pectinatus L.? J. Hooker in his British Flora gives 2 Subspecies of P. pectinatus — pectinatus proper = "P. marinus Hud." & filiformis Pers = "P. pectinatus Linn. Herb."2 Is either of these ours?
A thousand thanks for naming a batch of plants for me some time ago. I ought to have thanked you before but the fact is I had hoped to be able to tell you something about the habitat of Helichrysum Gravesii. But communication with the islands is so slow & uncertain, that I have not yet had an answer.
I long to put back Brachycome into Bellis! Surely the slight differences between them are scarcely sufficient to warrant their separation. However much wiser heads than mine have acquiesced in it — yours among the rest.
You asked me some time ago to send you certain plants if I came across them, in Gunn's Herbarium. You named Cuscuta. This is the only one I have found at present, & enclose you a bit. It is marked
"Launceston
January, 1864".
Should I find any others, you may depend upon my sending you specimens.
I remain
Yrs very truly
W. W. Spicer.
P.S. Don't forget when you write, to do so in German!
Bellis
Brachycome
Cuscuta
Helichrysum Gravesii
Potamogeton filiformis
Potamogeton marinus
Potamogeton marinus
Potamogeton pectinatus
Please cite as “FVM-77-10-02,” 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