2/6/941
Am much pleased, dear Dr Dyer, at the announcement that a case of specimens of fungs comes back, so that for reference here the material is as large as possible. A special effort must soon be made to send something to Kew of prominent value, but I hardly like to divert in these depressed times my attention from rural subjects here.
Salve!
Ferd von Mueller
The frosts, to which in the dry interior of Australia the best shrubby species of Atriplex are exposed, are not severe.2 They may however survive perhaps rather hard frosts and spring from the root again. For testing this we have no ready means in this mostly winterless clime. I should think, that the shrubby Austral. species of Atriplex will prove to have a similar constitution than A. Halimus, which seems however to grow naturally not far north of the mediterranean Sea. Perhaps the Austral[.] species would endure the clime of the Channel-Islands and so A. Halimus.3
Atriplex halimus
There is a red pencil mark after A. Halimus.
The first three sentences of the postscript were quoted in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens, Kew), 1896, p. 131.
Please cite as “FVM-94-06-02a,” 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 23 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-06-02a