From Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze   [1889]

955 Buchnera
954. Cartonema spicatum R Br
953 Rhynchosia
952 Stemodia lythrifolia F.v.M.
951.

Mir ganz neu! Wären Blüthen erlangbar? auch mehr Früchte für Zergliederung. Wie hoch? Wo?

[Completely new to me! Would flowers be obtainable? also more fruits for dissecting. How tall? Where?]

950

Früchte erwünscht

[Fruits wanted]

949 Polygala rhinanthoides, Solander
948 Psoralea
947

Breweria brevifolia, Bentham

Sehr selten. Blume roth?

[Very rare. Flowers red?]

946 Tephrosia
945 Crotalaria calycina, Schranck
969 Lycopodium cernuum Linné
966 Rottboellia formosa R Br
965.

Cynodon convergens F v M

Ist dies einjährig oder perennirend. Falls es ein gutes Weide-Grass ist, möchte ich um etwas reifen Samen bitten.

[Is this annual or perennial? If it is a good pasture grass, I would like to ask for some ripe seeds.]

964 Panicum
963 Eragrostis
962 Ectrosia leporina R Brown
961.

Setaria

Annuell?

[Annual?]

960 Panicum
959 Ectrosia
958 Panicum
957 Sporobolus pulchellus, R Br.
956

Cyperus

(Sect. Mariscus)

Breweria brevifolia

Buchnera

Cartonema spicatum

Crotalaria calycina

Cynodon convergens

Cyperus

Ectrosia leporina

Eragrostis

Lycopodium cernuum

Mariscus

Panicum

Polygala rhinanthoides

Psoralea

Rhynchosia

Rottboellia formosa

Setaria

Sporobolus pulchellus

Stemodia lythrifolia

Tephrosia

Undated fragment. Ten of the record numbers in this sheet are not at MEL (AVH, accessed 2 June 2022). The remainder are dated as 1889, without further precision. None of the record numbers is mentioned in fully dated letters to or from Holtze. Item dated to 1889 as the most likely year in which it was written.

Please cite as “FVM-89-00-00q,” 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/89-00-00q