Melbourne, 11th October 1878
Professor Dr Decaisne
Honored and dear Sir
This is dictated to you from my sick bed, but I did not like the mail to pass without asking from you a favor. I am anxious to ascertain the precise species of Stipa named by Gaudichaud Stipa crinita. Would you be so very friendly as to let me have a few fragments of the original specimen from Shark Bay? In the same manner I would like to clear up the doubts concerning Lepidosperma squamatum of La Billardière,2 if you can spare me a spikelet and portion of leaf from La Billardières typical specimens in your museum.
Enclosed I offer a few seeds of Senecio platylepis, the species was recorded only from one single locality, but in a recent journey I found it millionfold between the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan river.3
With regardful remembrance
Yours
Ferd. von Mueller.
Lepidosperma squamatum
Senecio platylepis
Stipa crinita
Please cite as “FVM-78-10-11b,” 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 24 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/78-10-11b