From Ferdinand von Mueller to Jessie Hussey   [Oct 1893]

The Hussey specimen with this number at MEL is listed as Potamogeton crispus, dated 1894; Hibbertia stricta is not a synonym.

Number not used in MEL. A different species of Acaena was sent as record no. 402; see M to J. Hussey, June 1895 (in this edition as 95-06-00g).

There is no Hussey specimen with this number in MEL. It has been used below for Scabiosa atropurpurea.

The number in the Hussey collection at MEL is used for the unrelated Rhodanthe moschata.

There are three Hussey specimens at MEL with this number: Maireana pyramidata and Sclerolaena brevifolia, each dated 1894, and an undated Silene gallica. In the determination lists, the number was used for the alga Caulerpa in M to J. Hussey, November 1893 (in this edition as 93-11-00l) and an un-numbered specimen was commented on in M to J. Hussey, May 1895 (in this edition as 95-05-00j); neither specimen is identifiable in the collection at MEL.

There are two Hussey specimens with this number at MEL: Asteraceae, dated 1894, and Distichlis distichophylla, dated 1895 (see M to J. Hussey, March 1895 (in this edition as 95-03-00h)).

There is no Hussey specimen with this number in MEL.

The specimen at MEL is undated.

Pimelea?

There are two Hussey specimens with this number at MEL, Pimelea serpyllifolia and Crassula colligata, each undated.

The specimen, undated, with this number at MEL is filed as Machaerina juncea.

The specimen at MEL is undated.

Koeleria?

The specimen, dated 1894, with this number at MEL is filed as the unrelated Actinobole uliginosum.

The specimen, dated 1894, with this number at MEL is filed as the unrelated Crassula decumbens.

The specimen at MEL is undated.

Above this entry the typescript includes '86. Epacris impressa | 85. Calycothrix tetragona' with a note '[86. & 85. added in by Jessie Hussey from previous letter]'. However, numbers '86' and '85' and 'Epacris impressa' are found only in this item, here and immediately above the valediction. 'Calycothrix tetragona' is also found as no. 342 in the later M to J. Hussey, January 1895 (in this edition as 95-01-00g). It appears that there were letters to Hussey not preserved in her archive, an interpretation consistent with the number of record numbers used twice in this sheet that do not appear on other sheets in the series.

There are two Hussey specimens at MEL with this number: Atriplex cinerea, undated, and Calotis scabiosifolia, dated 1894.

The specimen at MEL is undated.

i.e. Brongniart. The specimen at MEL is undated.

The specimen with this number at MEL, dated 1894, is the unrelated Pogonolepis muelleriana.

The specimen with this number at MEL, dated 1894, is an alga, Stigeoclonium tenue.

The specimen with this number at MEL, dated 1894, is an alga, Melanthalia concinna.

The specimen with this number at MEL, undated, is listed as Centaurium tenuiflorum, of which Erythraea australis is a synonym.

There is no Hussey specimen with this number in MEL.

The specimen at MEL is undated.

There are two Hussey specimens at MEL with this number: Xanthosia huegelii, undated (of which X. pusilla is a synonym) and Glischrocaryon behrii, dated 1894. See M to J. Hussey, August 1894 (in this edition as 94-08-00e), which has Loudonia behrii, a synonym of Glischrocaryon behrii at record no. '0.102', dated 1894, the only Hussey specimen at MEL. For '0.102', see discussion in the same letter to Hussey, Hussey, August 1894 (in this edition as n. 3.

There is no Hussey specimen with this number in MEL.

There are two Hussey specimens at MEL with this number, each undated, Lepidosperma carphoides and the alga Gigartina disticha.

Lythrum hyssopifolium? There is no Hussey specimen with this number in MEL.

This number is repeated below as Sonchus oleraceus. The only Hussey specimen with this number at MEL is listed as an undated Asteraceae, the family to which Sonchus belongs.

There is no Hussey specimen with this number in MEL.

There is no Hussey specimen with this number in MEL.

Kunzea pomifera? M used the spelling Kunzea pomifera in his note about its value as a fruit (B89.02.01) and when he first introduced it into his Select Plants (B88.12.01), but K. pomulifera in subsequent editions B91.09.01 and B95.08.04.

There is no Hussey specimen with this number in MEL.

There are two Hussey specimens at MEL with this number: Frankenia, dated 1893, and an undated alga, Gigartina disticha.

'118 … white' published in Kraehenbuehl (1981a), p. 392, without 'R. Brown' and with correct spelling.

There is no Hussey specimen with this number in MEL.

The only Hussey specimen AT MEL with this number is an undated alga, Chiracanthia arborea.

M to J. Hussey, 19 November 1893, indicates that she had answered this question.

i.e. Lindley.

The Hussey specimen with this number at MEL is listed as Pelargonium australe; record no. 134 as P. littorale.

There are two Hussey specimens with this number, Cryptandra and Tetratheca pilosa, each dated 1894, neither in the same family as Genista canariensis.

Lavandula? There are two Hussey specimens with this number: Lavandula stoechas, dated 1893, and Styphelia exharrena, dated 1894.

There are two Hussey specimens with this number: Spyridium coactilifolium, dated 1893, of which Cryptandra coactilifolia is a synonym, and Brachyloma ericoides, dated 1894.

There is no Hussey specimen with this record number in MEL.

A. caryophyllea.

The only Hussey specimen AT MEL with this number is an unrelated Hymenocladia, dated 1895.

There is no Hussey specimen with this record number in MEL.

There is no Hussey specimen with this record number in MEL.

This record number had been used previously for 'Apium' in M to J. Hussey, 1893 (in this edition as 93-00-00k). The number is used at MEL for a specimen of the unrelated Juncus aridicola, dated 1894.

Sonchus oleraceus? This record number is used above as 'Leaves also needed'. The only Hussey specimen with this number at MEL is listed as an undated Asteraceae, the family to which Sonchus belongs.

This number has been used above for 'Fruit also required', but there is no Hussey specimen with the number at MEL.

There are two Hussey specimens with this number, Leucophyta brownii dated 1893 and an undated alga, Lenormandia spectabilis.

There are two Hussey specimens with this number, Calytrix tetragona dated 1893 of which Calycothrix tetragona is a synonym, and an Asteraceae dated 1894.

The only Hussey specimen with this number at MEL is listed as the unrelated Senna artemisioides.

Item is a typescript, transcriber unknown, prepared ca. 1977 from an original MS in the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide.

Many record numbers have been used more than once for specimens at MEL, and many on the list are not now in MEL (AVH, accessed 4 August 2024; checks for synonyms were made using APC, accessed 15 August 2023). The dated specimens that matched M's determinations or those for which his names are synonyms are given as '1893'. The earliest dated letter in the correspondence with Hussey dealing with vascular plants is M to J. Hussey, 19 November 1893. That letter indicates that she had answered the question about Logania crassifolia posed here in a letter that had arrived shortly before M wrote. Although Hussey used the same determination numbers more than once, the evidence of the previous lists (M to J. Hussey 1893 (in this edition as 93-00-00j) and M to J. Hussey 1893 (in this edition as 93-00-00k)) indicates that this is the third list prepared naming Hussey's specimens. It is dated to October as the latest it could have been written to enable a reply to his question to have been received before 19 November.