7/12/92
The water-plant, sent by you, dear Miss Henley, is the Utricularia flexuosa.
it is very kind, to offer writing also to Miss [...].1 It would encourage the young Lady still more, if you also wrote, to collect plants, even aquatics.
Always with regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller
The Aldrovanda grows sometimes intermixed with this [...]2
Aldrovanda
Utricularia flexuosa
A piece has been cut out of the MS at this point.
What M wrote here has been cut out of the MS, the space corresponding to the missing text on the recto of the sheet.
MS is accompanied by an envelope addressed: 'On Her Majesty's Service. Miss Maria Henley Milawa, via Wangaratta. Government Botanist, Melbourne, 7/12/1892'; and stamped: ''MELBOURNE 13 DE 7 92'. It bears the franked stamp: 'CHIEF SECRETARY — VICTORIA |'.
The back has an illegible stamp.
Please cite as “FVM-92-12-07,” 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