This plant was found by me at Wee Wata Spring on Kallara Station Darling River N.S.W. – I have only noticed it in close proximity to this spring, the water of which I believe is strongly impregnated with soda. It grows in dense masses in the wet ground.1
Duncan Carson
| Messrs. C. & S. Officer | } | Owners of Station which is managed by David Brown Esq. |
| Kallara Station | ||
| Near South Darling River |
Note attached: ‘Sent to Kew 5/4/90’. M’s specimen label also attached: ‘Near the junction of Darling & Paroo Rivers | D. Carson’. The Kew specimen, K001056348, has one of M's labels attached to the sheet: 'Eriocaulon Carsoni | F.v.M. | Near the junction of the Paroo and Darling-River 1889 | Duncan Carson'; the label is annotated 'Recd 5/90'.
MS found with specimen of Eriocaulon carsonii (MEL 710197) found by Duncan Carson and named by M for him (B90.09.01), and ‘removed to handwriting file 7.8.1970’. MS annotated by M: ‘Near the junct. of the Darl. & Paroo’. The content suggests that the note was written soon after D. Carson to M, 12 August 1887, and certainly some time before D. Carson to M, 7 March 1888.
See also D. Brown to M, 19 September 1889 (in this edition as 89-09-19b), attached to the same specimen sheet.
Please cite as “FVM-87-09-00a,” 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