From John McKibbin1    5 September 1882

Malvern2

5/9/82

 

I am again obliged to trespass on your time Dear Baron to give me "Species" of the enclosed Pterostylis as I do not know it. I had taken it in Maryboro'3 but it never bloomed with me before — I also took it since I came here but it is very scarce

I have taken about a dozen species since I arrived back but they are all well known except one that I have taken but as the flower was dead I do not know it (a Pterostylis) it is larger in flower even than Pt. reflexa — without the threadlike points of lower 2 sepals

I am Dear Baron

yours obediently

John N McKibbin

 

To Baron von Mueller KCMG. &c &c

 

Pterostylis reflexa

 
1
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 6/9/82 F.v.M.' Letter not found.
2
Melbourne suburb.
3
Maryborough, Vic.

Please cite as “FVM-82-09-05,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-09-05