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From Robert Fitzgerald to Ferdinand von Mueller   28 June 1878

Surveyor Generals

Office Sydney

28th June 78

Dear Baron

I hasten to send you a specimen of a little pea-plant or trefoil I searched for in Howes Island,1 but was unable to obtain except in leaf

I have just received it from that Island but cannot find it in your list in the Fragmenta.

Yours truly

Robt D Fitzgerald

It now might be described at once as other specimens are in Sydney.

RDF2

1

Lord Howe Island.

2

MS has been folded to enclose the specimen, and the postcript is written on the outside.

3

MS found with a specimen of Medicago orbicularis (MEL 9508).

Please cite as “FVM-78-06-28a,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/78-06-28a