6, Marchantia polymorpha Linné.
3, Callistemon pityoides, Miquel
5, Colletia pubescens, Brogniart1
4, Lindsaya linearis Swartz
so far as I can judge from superficial inspection, but I will compare it carefully at leisure, being only lately back from the Austral. Alps where I went with a party of the Austral Assoc. for the Advancement of science.2
1, Muehlenbeckia gracillima, Meissner
2, Didiscus albiflorus D.C.
7, Ailantus
It is not A. imberbiflora. I will study this species carefully, when I have calmed down again, after the great extra-exertions, which as President I had to make in Jan. and December for the Australian Association.3 Is the origin of this tree in gardens there known?
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
A. R. Crawford Esqr
Ailantus imberbiflora
Callistemon pityoides
Colletia pubescens
Didiscus albiflorus
Lindsaya linearis
Marchantia polymorpha
Muehlenbeckia gracillima
i.e. Brongniart.
A number of the delegates to the Second Congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Melbourne in January 1890, went on a post-congress tour to Mt Hotham, in the Victorian Alps.
M was president of the Second Congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.
Please cite as “FVM-90-02-00d,” 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