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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate   24 July 1883

24/7/83.

Last evening, dear Prof. Tate, I received your letter of the 20th,1 and as I was not very urgently engaged to day, I managed to make some hours free, to examine at once the interesting plant, which you rightly recognized as a n.g. I send now the msc., which you can publish as a joint writing of ours.2

Among the minute annuals, which collectors generally pass must be yet many novelties, not only as regards Composites, but also of other orders, particularly Centrolepideae, Eriocauleae, &c

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Centrolepideae

Compositae

Eriocauleae

1

R. Tate to M, 20 July 1883.

2

new genus. Dimorphocoma (D. minutula), erected by M and Tate in B83.14.02, p. 107 (in the part of the paper read to the Royal Society of SA on 7 August 1883) is the only new genus erected jointly by Tate and M (IPNI, accessed 1 April 2023).

Please cite as “FVM-83-07-24a,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/83-07-24a