Nhill1
Nov 5th /92
My dear Baron
Accept my best thanks for the pains you have taken in naming the plants. I was rather surprised to find that Muhlenbeckia Cunninghami2 assumed the aspect of a small green leafy shrub growing on sand hills I suppose the total difference in the soils caused the great variation in the plant. I regret to say that the specimen of Gunnia septifraga which I had was lost with a number of others about 12 months ago. The mice got among the specimens and played such havoc as to leave nothing but fragments which were consigned to the flames. The name however appears in a list that I made out of all plants forwarded to you by me. I will have a look out for more of it where it was found before. I will pass the spot tomorrow where the Drymaria fillifolia3 grows and will collect all there is of it for you. Enclosed is a specimen of trefoil which is not unlike the common trefoil but has larger flowers. It is to be found sparingly all over this District and in remote places. I would like to know something of it. I succeeded in getting some of the Teosinth grass seeds to grow but it seems very delicate and evidently will stand very little frost.
I have a number of specimens of plants peculiar to this District. If you would care for any, I will send you what there is of them, such as Prostanthera coccinea, Lasiopetalum Behrii &c
With kind regards believe me to be
faithfully yours
St Eloy D'Alton
Drymaria fillifolia
Gunnia septifraga
Lasiopetalum Behrii
Muhlenbeckia Cunninghami
Prostanthera coccinea
Vic.
Muehlenbeckia cunninghami.
Drymaria filiformis? M exhibited a specimen of this plant, as new to Victoria, at the November 1892 meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, attributing its collection to D'Alton among others (Victorian naturalist (1892), vol. 9, p. 115).
MS found with a specimen of Trifolium campestre (MEL 2095946).
Please cite as “FVM-92-11-05,” 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