231. Cryptandra1
I shall best be able to name this species, when the plant comes into ripe fruit.
230. Brachyloma ericoides, Sonder
229. Solanum nigrum Linné
Poisonous, should be pulled up on pastures and burnt.
232. Styphelia
This cannot with certainty be named til fruit is obtained later in the season.2 It is allied to Styphelia rufa and S. hirtella, and may be an almost glabrous form of the latter. Is this shrub dwarf? Has it fragrant flowers? Does it grow in dry or wet, rocky or sandy ground. I presume, that it is only of very sparing occurence.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Brachyloma ericoides
Cryptandra
Solanum nigrum
Styphelia hirtella
Styphelia rufa
Number not used in Hussey collection at MEL. It is also used for Cryptandra in M to J. Hussey, September 1893 (in this edition as 93-09-00g).
There are four specimens at MEL with the record number 232, all identified as Styphelia exarrhena, one undated and one each for 1894, 1895 and 1896; none is described as having fruit.
Item is a typescript, transcriber unknown, prepared ca. 1977 from an original MS in the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide.
The present list follows on from 228, the last number used in M to J. Hussey, 1894 (in this edition as 94-00-00b). At a meeting of the Port Elliot branch of the Agricultural Bureau on 19 May 1894, 'Miss J. L. Hussey called attention to plant (sic) found by her growing in the district, which had been identified by Baron Sir F. von Mueller as Solanum nigrum, a poisonous plant, which should be destroyed wherever found' (South Australian chronicle, 9 June 1894, p. 13). Although there are no record numbers 229 to 231in the Hussey collection at MEL, Hussey's report on Solanum nigrum, echoing the only known letter that refers to the species, implies that the latest that this list could have been sent was early May 1894. It is dated accordingly.
Please cite as “FVM-94-05-00b,” 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