[...]1 case for safe [examination] at your swamps.
If you can without trouble pick some few seeds of Goodenia humilis, I shall be obliged. The Mylitta is likely coming here (S. Yarra) to morrow. I am greatly beholden to you for this valuable donation; the white Polyporus is not large, which grows from it, still conspicuous and remarkable to any one. What you say about the Polyporus growing out of a vulnerated part of the Mylitta is momentous, but that only one case may have been an exceptional one. The Polyporus has not a stalk like the ordinary Agaricus-mushroom, which we eat. If the white Polyporus specimen on the My[litta] [...]2
Agaricus
Goodenia humilis
Mylitta
Polyporus
Unknown amount of text missing.
Unknown amount of text missing.
Fragment dated to December 1893 since the subject-matter is evidently closely connected with that of M to H. Williamson, 19 December 1893 (in this edition as 93-12-19a). The top half of the page has been cut off, and elements of a following line show that text is also missing on the verso. See also M to H. Williamson, December 1893 (in this edition as 93-12-00f).
Please cite as “FVM-93-12-00,” 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