From Jessie Hussey1    2 December 1894

To Baron Sir. F. Von Mueller

Melbourne

 

My Lord

The Pimelea no 321 is growing in the Goolwa2 scrub-land about four or five miles from here — in the same place where I gathered "Pultenaea densifolia" — By same post I send a whole plant which is the average size, though I saw a few from fifteen to eighteen inches high, but these were straggly. This Pimelea is growing very freely for about two miles along the Railway line between here & Goolwa, you will find some seeds of it in the parcel, and perhaps a few ripe ones amongst them.3

I thank you for lists of names of plants duly received, also seeds of Euchlaena mexicana

Yesterday I was conversing with a farmer, whose farm is in Hindmarsh Valley about 9 miles from here — he told me he grew "Euchlaena luxurians" last year from seeds obtained from the Central Ag Bureau, his plants attained a height of 10 feet in about ten months, but did not flower — I said the valley would perhaps not be as favourable for its full development as open land — He has accepted a few of your seeds, and will try again, we will also grow it here to compare the localities.

I do not know when is the best time to sow the seeds —

I am yours respectfully

Jessie L. Hussey

 

Port Elliot4

2/12/94

 

Euchlaena luxurians

Euchlaena mexicana

Pimelea

Pultenaea densifolia

1
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 4/12/94 F.v.M.' See M to J. Hussey, 4 December 1894.
2
SA.
3
Pimelea husseyana was exhibited (as Pimelia husseyana) by M at a meeting of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club (Victorian naturalist, vol. 11 [1894], p. 122), but although Tate (1895), p.81, cited the name as 'F.v.M., m.s.', M never published it; it is possible that the name Tate was citing was nothing more than a MS name in a list or a label on a specimen. A formal description based on Hussey's specimens was published by Ewart (1921), pp. 230-1.
4
SA.

Please cite as “FVM-94-12-02,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-12-02