THE UNIVERSITY
ADELAIDE
22/9/83
My Dear Baron
Thanks for the reprint "on the deleterious property of Omalanthus"1
Find enclosed a Sisymbrium which I cannot attach to any described Australian species. I am unsparing of my time in working out the Lake Torrens2 plants; I have a shrubby Lepidium with the small flowers similar to L. phlebopetalum, but with with3 very characteristic pods; it was too large to send with this, but you will receive it with others in good time.4
Yrs very truly
Ralph Tate
P.S. I have gathered Capsella humistrata with white flowers at the Nor' West Bend.5 Sisymbrium trisectum with yellow flowers Lake Torrens
Capsella humistrata
Lepidium phlebopetalum
Omalanthus
Sisymbrium trisectum
B83.09.02.
SA, to the west of the Flinders Ranges.
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Presumably the specimen of L. phlebopetalum (MEL 74058) collected by Tate from 'Lake Torrens Plain near Termination Hill', dated 2 September 1883, that was 'in a folder annotated "Short style form", 14 Apr 2004' (AVH, accessed 9 April 2023).
River Murray, near Morgan, SA? The location given for this species in Tate (1890) is his region M, the Murray plain.
Found with a specimen of Arabidella procumbens (MEL 767), labelled by Tate 'Sisymbrium procumbens n sp. | Claypan Lake Torrens Plain nr Termination Hill | R. Tate 2/9/83'. It was described in Tate (1885), p. 67.
Please cite as “FVM-83-09-22,” 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