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I feel sure, dear Mr Deane, that yet other species of Potamogeton can be found in N.S.W., for instance: P. pectinatus in brackish ground. Small dried portions with flowers and particularly with ripe fruit would quite suffice for examination.
Oceanic Monocotyledoneae seem to have never yet been methodically searched for anywhere on your coast, not even by R Brown, who was overwhelmed by the then novel objects at his time.1
Should you ever meet a fruiting plant of Eriostemon phylicoides, would you kindly send a sprig?
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
Eriostemon phylicoides
Potamogeton pectinatus
i.e. when Robert Brown (1773-1858) was in Australia, 1801-05.
Please cite as “FVM-88-05-02,” 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