Sunday, 5/7/91.
You must have deemed me very remiss, dear Prof Tate, that I did not answer your last kind letter earlier;1 but I have been passing since May or rather beginning of June the eight edition of the Select plants2 through the press, and had to devote much of my time, to work in the Additions, which accrued since the last three years, when the 7th Edition3 (in 1800 copies About ⅔ sold from Gov. Print. Office ⅓ given away by Government) appeared. The Nordenskiold's contemplated south-polar Expedition taxed also my time, as I did wish to prevent, that the summer-season of 1892-1893 should be lost.4 I am with the "Select plants" now only to the end of letter Q, so that I looked merely in a hurry on your plants, and may have to keep the naming of some few over for a short while.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
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Melaleuca Leucadendron, L. One of its various forms. I traced it myself 1856 far inland. |
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Macropteranthes Keckwickii,5 FvM. |
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25, |
Dolichandrone heterophylla, FvM |
The pretty shining Grass is Lamarckia aurea, Moench
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Cyperus conicus, FvM.6 I will compare this, so as to make quite sure about the name.7 |
Cyperus conicus
Dolichandrone heterophylla
Lamarckia aurea
Macropteranthes Keckwickii
Melaleuca leucadendron
See R. Tate to M, 1 July 1891 (in this edition as 91-07-01b), in which M was asked urgently to identify some plants collected by E. C. Stirling for an imminent meeting of the Royal Society of SA.
B91.09.10.
B88.12.01.
See M to A. Nordenskiöld, 20 April 1891.
M. kekwickii?
In B89.12.03, p. 211, M correctly attributes this name to Boeckeler.
Only the first three species named here were included in the list published in Tate (1892).
Please cite as “FVM-91-07-05,” 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