From John McKibbin   1 June 1883

Junction Hotel

Drummond¹

1st June 1883

Yours of the 28th Inst² is just to hand Dear Baron and I hasten to have sent to you the only two plants I took up when I found the others,³ — I may state that a few perches from where I got these the P.⁴ nana was just appearing above ground, in their radial leaves whereas these were nearly all out of flower (being in full flower about the middle of April) — the P. nana does not flower till August late — You will observe the upper sepal differs by having the long thread-like point and from my notes on P. nana I see the column differs considerably — but I hope the two I now send will be sufficiently fresh to enable you to examine them All that I examined casually seemed to have the column appendages quite different from P. nana, but of course I only use an ordinary magnifying glass — & they flowering at a different time caused me first to compare them with my notes on P. nana.

I have the honor to be

Dear Baron

your obt servt

J. N. McKibbin

Baron von Mueller K.C.M.G. &c &c

P.S.

I collected a single plant of P. acuminata when down on the 29th March, in Malvern,⁵ (although in Maryborough⁶ it was not in flower till early in May —) Eriochilus autumnalis was in full flower at the same place

JNM

Eriochilus autumnalis

Pterostylis acuminata

Pterostylis Concinna

Pterostylis nana