8/6/90.
Did you receive within the last week, dear Professor, an unfinished letter,1 in which I gave my views on several of Tietken's plants, among them an Eragrostis trichophylla? It is just as well, if really the letter went, that you received this bit of information meanwhile, as I became so overwhelmed with duties in the departments for many days, that I could not turn to the examination of any plants. I now give you an additional note for appending to that of Eragrostis;2 I also have settled, so far as our present material allowes, the position of the Heliotropium. The artist has brought out the analysis of the Babbagia too faint in part.3 It will be 1½ days work for him to mend this. I am now at the Helipterum, and then will do the Eriocaulon finally,4 when the work, so far as I can see, will come to an end.
Trusting you are now quite well again
Ferd. von Mueller.
Babbagia
Eragrostis trichophylla
Eriocaulon
Heliotropium
Helipterum
Letter not found.
There is no note with the entry for Eragrostis diandra, the only Eragrostis listed, in B90.14.03, p. 106.
M is probably referring to (one of) plates 37-40 all of which are Babbagia, published in Iconography of Australian salsolaceous plants (B90.13.14). The artist is Robert Graff.
In B90.14.03, p. 95, M and Tate listed eight new species, describing all but Eriocaulon graphitinum in 'Descriptions of new species' on pp. 107-9.
MS black-edged — M's brother-in-law George Doughty died on 26 March 1890.
Please cite as “FVM-90-06-08,” 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