Gladesville1 27th Aug /87
My dear Sir,
I send you under separate cover a small plant which is rather abundant this year in wet places. Strange to say, I have not noticed it before, perhaps I never found it in flower and took it for something else. It is evidently a Tillaea, but it does not correspond with the description of any of the species in the "Flora". I have found three other species growing about here, namely
T. verticillaris
T. macrantha
& T. recurva
The fourth species T. purpurata I have often looked for but not been able to find. The peculiarity of the plant I send you seems to be its long leaflike sepals.
In your census2 you give two other species as occurring in Western Australia but I have not the Volume of the Fragmenta handy to refer to them.3 In the mean time I forward you specimens.
The present season promises well for wild flowers, but terrible havoc has been committed on the Crown Lands by the so called "Unemployed" — misemployed would be the proper term.
Believe me
Yours very faithfully
H Deane
Baron F von Mueller
Tillaea macrantha
Tillaea purpurata
Tillaea recurva
Tillaea verticillaris
Please cite as “FVM-87-08-27,” 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