From Ferdinand von Mueller to Jessie Hussey   [Dec 1894]

331. Drosera glanduligera, Lehm.

339. Diuris pedunculata, R. Br.

338. Aster pannosus, F.v.Mueller

337. Euc. Can not be safely named in the absence of young flowers (with operculum) and ripe fruit. It is also help for naming species in this intricate genus if notes on stature bark, soil are supplied1

336. Thysanotus Baueri R. Br.2

333. Styphelia costata F.v.M.

New locality. Can later also fruits be obtained

334. Can fruit be got?

340. Dodonaea humilis Endl.

332. Drosera pygmaea DC.

Unusually large.

With best greeting

F.v.M.

Aster pannosus

Diuris pedunculata

Dodonaea humilis

Drosera glanduligera

Drosera pygmaea

Eucalyptus

Styphelia costata

Thysanotus Baueri

The specimen with this record number, MEL 0703944, listed as having "flowers" with no mention of buds or fruit, is identified as Eucalyptus socialis (AVH, accessed 4 August 2024). It is not necessarily the specimen M is reporting here, although no other use of the number has been found in the Hussey correspondence.

This number not used for a Hussey specimen at MEL.

Item is a typescript, transcriber unknown, prepared ca. 1977 from an original MS in the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide.

Of the record numbers that are present, M's names match the names used in the Hussey collection in MEL or are synonyms. The record numbers follow on from M to J. Hussey, November 1894 (in this edition as 98-11-00d) and are the last of the Hussey specimens dated to 1894. The numbers that follow on are listed in M to J. Hussey, January 1895 (in this edition as 96-01-00g). The letter is therefore dated as December 1894 as the latest it is likely to have been written.

Please cite as “FVM-94-12-00b,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-12-00b