1/2/95
Only some few hurried lines, dear Mr Rupp, to thank you for your kind letter and for recognizing the information which it contains. Of Geijera and other such other Lachlan-Plants as are not common at Melbourne, I shall be thankful.1 The Orchids, which at the cool season would likely occur there, should be Microtis porrifolia and Lyperanthus nigricans
I have just sent Mrs Linton and her children the second Census of Australian Plants.2 It must be a different Goodenia, not G. humilis, which you found there, the latter belonging to the [com]plex of Tasmanian vegetation.
Ask Mrs Linton children kindly, to gather particularly even the minutest land-plants, and all sorts of true Waterplants (not riparian) The Bulb must be Calostemma luteum.
If Mrs Lintons family make a methodic collection there, a list of the "plants of Hay" could be published as a contribution to geographic phytology
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller
Calostemma luteum
Geijera
Goodenia humilis
Lyperanthus nigricans
Microtis porrifolia
Please cite as “FVM-95-02-01,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/95-02-01