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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Amie Stirling   15 Nov 1892

15/11/92

The specimens of Bossiaea, which you and your young brother1 so attentively procured, dear Miss Stirling, prove it to be B. prostrata (RBr). This remarkable variety was exhibited at the Field Naturalists Club last evening under your name.2

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller.

Bossiaea prostrata

1

Not identified.

2

The specimen, described as collected from Western Port by ‘Miss Annie Stirling’, was included among a number of items exhibited by M at the meeting on 14 November 1892 (Victorian naturalist, vol. 9 (1892-3), p. 115).

3

Letter not found. For the text given here, see the image of the letter published in A. Stirling (1980), p. 98.

Please cite as “FVM-92-11-15,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/92-11-15