Prostanthera Wilkieana, F.v.M.
May 20.
Ptilotus leucocoma, (Moquin).
I have no authentic specimen to compare; but you seem to have identified the plant correctly.
Near Mt Sonder.1
Erechthites lacerata F.vM.
Basedow-Range. 2
This agrees in every respect with the plant, gathered by me 1851, near the Elder's Ranges3 and described 1852 in the Linnaea4 It seems specifically distinct from the genuine southern E. arguta. In some respects it approaches Senecio ramosissimus. Drummond's plant 328, referred by Bentham to that species, belongs however to S. leucoglossus This might also be mentioned in our essay.5
Erechthites arguta
Erechthites lacerata
Prostanthera Wilkieana
Ptilotus leucocoma
Senecio leucoglossus
Senecio ramosissimus
NT.
NT.
In the Flinders Ranges, SA.
B53.04.01, p. 417.
Text ends at bottom of page without valediction. The 'essay' is B90.14.03.
MS is in M's hand. All species are included in 90.14.03, an account of the species found by William Tietkens on his 1889 expedition to Central Australia, and the locations mentioned in the paper are those stated here. The paragraph under Erechthites lacerate is quoted on p. 102 as from 'F. v. M' with a very minor change to the beginning of the first sentence and the omission of the last. Although the paper is said to have been read to the Royal Society of SA at its meeting on 1 April 1890, Tate is known to have altered texts for publication after the meetings at which they were read, which M expected to be the case here; see M to R. Tate, 26 April 1890, where he expected to be able to make alterations to the proof. The fragment is therefore dated to 20 May 1890.
Please cite as “FVM-90-05-20a,” 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