29/7/91.
The fern, of which you sent a frond, dear Miss Henley, is Botrychium ternatum (Swartz), a rare plant in Victoria, new to your locality,1 from which it will be recorded under your honored name in my works. I found it 1854 on the Snowy plains beyond the Buffalo-Ranges.2 The fertile frond is contracted through out. If in your lagoons a good search was made for floating or submerged plants, some rarities would be likely discovered. It can best be done with a rake.
I am eager also for uncommon fungs, dried on a shelve near a fire.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Botrychium ternatum
Please cite as “FVM-91-07-29a,” 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