[Vorkommen:
Lebend: …1 Australien (Überhaupt selten: nahe den australischen Alpen [so in der Mitta-Mitta, dem Hume-River, obersten Murray-River]2; im subtropischen Australien [Richmond, Dawson- und Burnett-River]).]
[Occurrence:
Living: ... Australia (Generally rare: near the Australian Alps [thus in the Mitta-Mitta, the Hume River,3 upper Murray River]; in subtropical Australia [Richmond, Dawson and Burnett Rivers]).]4
Editors' ellipsis, omitting extra-Australian distribution.
These and the subsequent set of square brackets are in the source document.
It is uncertain what current name, if any, represents the stream M calls 'Hume River'; see M to William Branwhite Clarke, 29 January 1874, and notes thereto.
M had published these distribution details in B76.10.01, p. 77, under Cabomba peltata.
Letter not found. The text given here is from G. Andersson (1896), pp. 21-2; the associated footnote at the end of the passage reads: 'Die Verbreitung in Australien nach brieflicher Mitteilung des Herrn Baron F. v. Mueller in Melbourne an Herrn Prof. A. G. Nathorst' [The Australian distribution from a letter from Baron F. v. Mueller in Melbourne to Prof A. G. Nathorst]. The article concerns the world-wide distribution of extant Brasenia purpurea; Andersson goes on to list and discuss the fossil distribution and the attribution of the fossils to this genus.
The letter is dated to 1892 as the earliest likely date that it would have been written based on the comment in Andersson's text that:
Seit 1892, wo ich Klinge besuchte, habe ich mich hin und wieder mit diesen Samen beschäftigt. Seitdem das hiesige paläophytologische Museum durch die Bemühungen des Direktors Herrn Prof. A. G. Nathorst ein brauchbares Vergleichsmaterial von Brasenia aus Amerika, Australien und Japan bekommen hatte, überzeugte ich mich mehr und mehr davon, dass nur sehr unbedeutende Rassenunterschiede zwischen den Samen der lebenden und der fossilen Pflanze bestehen.
[Since 1892, when I visited Klinge, I have been busy with these seeds now and then. Since then, the local Paleophytological Museum through the efforts of the director Prof. A. G. Nathorst received useful reference material of Brasenia from America, Australia and Japan, and I convinced myself more and more of the fact that there are only very insignificant racial differences between the seeds of the living and the fossil plant.]
The letter may however have been written some years later.
Please cite as “FVM-92-00-00,” 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