From Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Hamilton   [1884]

[DIURIS tricolor, R. D. F.1

Jour. Bot. Vol. XXIII. 1885, p. 135.

Mr. Fitzgerald named this plant from specimens which I sent him. It is common all over the district … Baron von Mueller, to whom I sent some dried plants, informs me that he has had it from other localities.]

Diuris tricolor

Robert David Fitzgerald.

Letter not found. The text given here is from Hamilton (1887), p. 868. The paper was read to the Linnean Society of New South Wales on 25 August 1886, but the letter is dated to 1884 on the basis of the specimen of Diuris tricolor, MEL 0677526, which was collected by Hamilton and is dated 1884.

Please cite as “FVM-84-00-00h,” 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/84-00-00h