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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson   14 May 1894

14/5/94

Your specimen of the yellow flowered Composite Crepis is mislaid, dear Mr Williamson, so that when I wanted to place it before the Field-Naturalists Club this day, I could not find it. Would you be so good to send me some few other specimens of this Crepis, particularly also some with ripe fruits. Your Amarantus,1 also a weed new for Victoria, is undoubtedly A. retroflexus L, but I had some difficulty to identify it in so large a genus, as your specimen was fragmentary only with no well formed leaves on it.2

Would a letter to Mt. Sturgeon secure perhaps fruit of your Grevillea at this season.3

Amarantus retroflexus

Crepis

Grevillea

1

More commonly Amaranthus.

2

See M to H. Williamson, 29 April 1894.

3

Grampians, Vic. See M to H. Williamson, 31 December 1893.

The bottom of the page, presumably including the valediction, has been cut off.

Please cite as “FVM-94-05-14,” 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/94-05-14