1./7./81.
I need hardly say, dear Prof. Tate, that in August you will find the spring flowers developed of most species, in December their fruit. A warm mild place like Kang. Isl. or Enc. Bay1 will have nearly all the terrestrial Orchids & most annuals in bloom during August, which plants will have dried up in midsummer.
If possible both regions should be traversed both in Spring & Summer. For instance an Acacia in fruit alone cannot be safely named, nor one in flower alone.
The alterations in the mycographic list arise from typographic or writing errors; Berkeley wrote for instance fructuicola, but the root of the word is classically fructi not fructui.
I was delighted, that my namesake on the turf2 brought no discredit on his sponsor, and hope he will sustain his renommée3 also in the great Champion-Race of Melbourne4 on Prince of Wales Birthday next.
Regardfully
your
Ferd von Mueller.
You named Schoenus Tepperi quite correctly from the new locality.
Acacia
Schoenus Tepperi
Kangaroo Island and Encounter Bay, SA. See M to R. Tate, 23 June 1881.
A racehorse owned by Thomas Elder named 'Baron von Mueller'. See Dwyer (1996).
reputation.
i.e. the Melbourne Cup meeting, 1 November 1881, where 'Baron von Mueller' ran in the last race of the day, the Yan Yean Stakes handicap, which it won by a short neck from the favourite, surviving a protest (Age (Melbourne), 2 November 1881, p. 6).
Please cite as “FVM-81-07-01,” 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