From Samuel Dixon   22 November 1893

Royal Exchange Adelaide

22 Nov/ 93

My dear Baron

Under another cover I post you a tin box with four varieties of seeds from the Eastern watershed near the absurdly named Lake Annean,¹ the first is a very elegant graceful drooping myal, about 10 ft high from granite ranges & not abundant the second is a beautiful Ptilotes(?)² a bush about three ft high leaves not unlike some saltbushes white & rather fleshy semicircular in shape, flower spike 6 inches long, the third is a very large flowered Claytonia(?) as large as a florin about 9 inches in height flower stems numerous, slender, & bearing abundant blooms the fourth is enclosed & what is it? the present ones are smaller than usual although usually blue occaisionally a plant with half dozen flowers shows a large yellow one the seed is difficult to obtain being easily shed a friend gathered a bunch & put them on the mantel shelf & they kept in good order without the slightest fading when I saw them a month after & this in a hot canvas tent in October & without water

I hope you will succeed in getting them to grow

Had to leave here just before our association gathered³ & I sent over from King Georges Sound⁴ a large box of cut blooms but through a bad piece of carelessness our friend Tate (although advised of them) overlooked the box until all was over & even then they were in good order, I feel very vexed as they cost me some money to Webb⁵ there & a good deal of trouble to get them over

I have brought over for Tate a fair but very incomplete collection of phanerogamous plants the exigencies of very rapid travelling preventing my collecting a tithe of what I saw & the sand plain beyond the Greenough River⁶ I traversed on my return in the dark However I found at Mullewa,⁷ a new railway terminus (that is to be) an enthusiastic flower loving blacksmith & he is to collect & send a parcel of seeds (with leaves & seed vessels to identify) to our good friend Holtze⁸

With best wishes for your continuous good health & welfare

Beleive me

my dear Baron

Yours vy ffully⁹

Saml. Dixon

Claytonia

Ptilotes