From Ferdinand von Mueller to Anna Brotherton   [1894]

7,

Styphelia virgata, Labill.

26,

Millotia tenuifolia, Cassini.

10,

Pimelea humilis, RBrown

5,

Acacia Oxycedrus, Sieber

11,

Dillwynia ericifolia, Smith

(a very variable plant as hitherto understood)

15,

Styphelia humifusa, Labillard.

28,

Hypericum Japonicum, Thunberg

6,

Acacia aspera, Lindley.

2,

Brachycome

(Fruit unripe)

9,

Styphelia

Of this I would like to see ripe fruit later in the season

27,

Galium umbrosum, Solander.

24,

Bulbine bulbosa, Haworth

21,

Microseris Forsteri, J. Hooker

Number obliterated, Drosera auriculata Backhouse

With this often the hairy flowered D. peltata, Smith

4,

Drosera Menziesii, RBrown

Could later in the season well ripened seeds of any of the Droseras be obtained

1,

Grevillea alpina Lindley.

30,

Arthropodium minus RBr
16,

The "Buttercup" without number =

Ranunculus lappaceus, Smith

23,

Pterostylis nana, RBrown

8,

Styphelia ericoides, Smith.

14,

Caladenia Patersoni, RBrown var filamentosa.1

13,

Grevillea ericifolia RBrown

12,

Glycine Latrobei,2 Bentham

31,

Asperula oligantha, F.vM.

18,

Luzula campestris, De Candolle & 3

29,

Caladenia carnea, RBrown

(A variety, not the typic form)

9 & 2,3

Stackhousia linarifolia Cunningham.

(Both belong to one species, unless the ripe fruit should show differences)

20,

Drosera

Not yet in flower

25

Aira caryophyllea, Linné

(Immigrated)

Acacia aspera

Acacia Oxycedrus

Aira caryophyllea

Arthropodium minus

Asperula oligantha

Brachycome

Bulbine bulbosa

Caladenia carnea

Caladenia Patersoni var filamentosa

Dillwynia ericifolia

Drosera auriculata

Drosera Menziesii

Drosera peltata

Galium umbrosum

Glycine Latrobei

Grevillea alpina

Grevillea ericifolia

Pterostylis nana

Hypericum Japonicum

Luzula campestris

Microseris Forsteri

Millotia tenuifolia

Pimelea humilis

Ranunculus lappaceus

Stackhousia linarifolia

Styphelia

Styphelia ericoides

Styphelia humifusa

Styphelia virgata

The variety name has not been found (APNI, accessed 28 November 2021).

Glycine Latrobeana, the name M uses in B89.05.03?

There is evidently a duplication of numbers here; earlier in the list, nos 2 and 9 were identified as belonging to other genera.

Correspondent inferred; MS acquired by the Castlemaine Art Gallery & Museum as part of a collection of Brotherton correspondence.

Brotherton did not use a single sequence of collecting numbers. However, taking account of modern synonyms, the 17 numbered specimens that can be linked to surviving specimens are all dated 1894, and the list is dated accordingly. None of her collecting numbers 7, 15, 9, 24, 30, 16, 23, 14, 29 are represented by surviving specimens at MEL. The list may be the one referred to in M to A. Brotherton, 21 October 1894.

Please cite as “FVM-94-00-00,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-00-00