29/5/93.
If you persevere and so your Lady-friends on the Murray-River, &c dear Miss Henley, you are likely to discover yet the Aldrovanda in Vict. and N.S.W.1
N. 3 = Potamogeton obtusifolius.
N. 1 = Chara
N 2. = Nitella
1 & 2 too small for accurate specific naming.
If you strew some kitchen-salt over the plot, where the Mesembryanthemum edule grows, it will make better advances as it is a Salt-plant.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Aldrovanda
Chara
Mesembryanthemum edule
Nitella
Potamogeton obtusifolius
M was actively searching for this genus; see B89.09.01 and letters to several correspondents, for example M to W. Gill, 30 September 1889 (in this edition as 89-09-30a), and M to H. Deane, 15 October 1893.
Please cite as “FVM-93-05-29,” 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