From Duncan Carson   September 1887

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

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Owners of Station which is managed by David Brown Esq.

Kallara Station

Near South Darling River
 
1
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'.

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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/87-09-00a