24/10/93.
Your number 17, dear Mr Tyson, is an entirely new plant, and I have named it Hemigenia Tysoni, under which name the description will at once be published,1 which will doubtless be to you a great encouragement. Did you find it on rocks? Is it very local? I presume the color of the fresh flower is blue. Kindly procure some more specimens, if this can easily be done.
Is Mt Narryer2 of considerable height? I presume, you searched it for plants. If the summit is rocky, many rare or new plants should occur on it.
6, Eremophila Gilesii, F.v.M
5, Eremophila Oldfieldi,3 F.v.M
40, Eremophila Mackinlayi F.v.M
4, Eremophila Youngii, F.v.M
28, Eremophila rotundifolia F.v.M.
Some of your plants will still have to be more carefully to be examined for accurate naming.
The more sorts you may send, the more novelties will be likely to be recorded, particularly if you include all sorts of minute plants I want very much plants from the grassy and flowering downs at the sources of the Murchison-River.4 Have you any friends there? Do many everlastings occur near you?
I wrote you yesterday, that the little bush with the numerous globular little clusters of leaves was a Kochia;5 this is unexpected.
I sent yesterday also a list of nearly all the plants of your last sending.6
Is yours a cattle — or a sheep — station?
With best wishes for you
Ferd. von Mueller.
Can I send you anything very acceptable from here?
Is Mt Narryon or Mt Narrier a native name?7
Hemigenia Tysoni
Eremophila Gilesii
Eremophila Oldfieldi
Eremophila Mackinlayi
Eremophila Youngii
Eremophila rotundifolia
Kochia
Please cite as “FVM-93-10-24,” 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