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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Henriette Carter   [Nov 1887]

[At the request of Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., who had determined them, the following list of plants from the Barrington and Bean Bean tableland, Upper Hunter River,1 not found so far north before, was communicated by Miss Henrietta2 Carter, by whom they had been collected : — Claytonia Australasica, J. Hooker; Pultenaea fasciculata, Benth.; Erigeron pappochromus, Labill.; Scaevola Hookeri, F. v. M.; Velleya montana, J. Hook.; Veronica arguta, R. Br.; Gentiana saxosa, Forst.; Myosotis suaveolens, Poir,; Epacris coriacea, Cunn.; and E. heteronema, Labill.]

Claytonia Australasica

Epacris coriacea

Epacris heteronema

Erigeron pappochromus

Gentiana saxosa

Myosotis suaveolens

Pultenaea fasciculata

Scaevola Hookeri

Velleya montana

Veronica arguta

1

NSW.

2

Henriette; see Maroske & Vaughan (2014), p. 109.

3

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Notes and Exhibits', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 12, 1888, p. 982. The note was read at the meeting held on 30 November 1887.

Please cite as “FVM-87-11-00b,” 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/87-11-00b