27/4/83
While the heavy work for the Census1 went on, dear Prof. Tate, I occasionally had to trust to my memory, as I have mislaid the list of S. A2 plants, which I wrote from 1847-1852. I hope to find it, while a general rearrangement of my correspondence and manuscripts will take place in May this year, after moving three times within the last 10 years into different quaters. Of my earliest collections I did not keep complete sets for want of space; I am certain, that when I come to a further revision of my supplemental collections, got after the successive volumes of the Flora were issued,3 I shall be able to give yet many more plants for S. A.
I miss many plants, concerning which in 1882 I gave you notes as S. Australian species, for instance Peplidium Muelleri, Between Finke-River and Lake Eyre, Giles.4
Best thanks for the extraprints of Tatea.5
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.
Postscript
I forget, that Peplidium &c were published already, at the end of last year's volume.6 I suppose, that you will keep the new addenda also together for the closing of the last part in 1883.
Peplidium Muelleri
Tatea
B83.03.04.
South Australian.
Bentham (1863-1878).
No letter to Tate in 1882 mentioning Peplidium muelleri has been found, but in M to R. Tate, 3 February 1883 (in this edition as 83-02-03a) he mentions having found 'only yesterday' 'Peplidium muelleri, which years ago was got by Mr Ernest Giles'. The date of collection has not been found; no collection of the species by any Giles is listed in AVH (accessed 23 January 2024).
Proof sheets of B83.12.04, i.e., B83.04.07.
Tate (1882), p. 89.
Please cite as “FVM-83-04-27a,” 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