30/8/78.
I have been on the sickbed for three weeks, dear Mr Buchanan,1 and am still so very enfeebled that I cannot write at length. Pray do not trouble about the sections of the fern trees, unless quite handy. I do not wish to involve you in trouble & expense; I really have no claims on your goodness. Can you procure the showy floating water plant with comparatively large white flowers of your northern rivers? Mr Kirk sent me a flower many years ago, but no leaves. He must have got it from some settler.
With regardful remembrance
Ferd von Mueller.
I have the real Zannichellia palustris now also from Australia; so you may have it there as well,2 though you seem to have Lepilaena also.
Lepilaena
Zannichellia palustris
Please cite as “FVM-78-08-30,” 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