Heidelberg1
11 Feb 1895
My dear Sir
Many thanks for your kind offer to assist me in my studies I send with this a dried specimen of the Cryptostylis & also a drawing of another specimen with notes which may be of interest2 —
I also take the liberty of sending you quite a large number of other plants which I have not identified except provisionally in some cases. Also two plants of orchids, though possibly in the absence of the flowers you may not identify them with certainty.
My apology for sending you so many at once must be that I am anxious to increase my knowledge of our native flora as speedily as possible in order that I may the better be able to to3 discriminate what may come under my notice in future & it is only occasionally that I have such opportunities of collecting. —
I forgot to mention in my last4 that I will bear in mind your request for Fungs.
I have not yet visited the banks of the Yarra5 or lagoons to collect aquatic plants — I know very little about them but I see there is a list of "Floating & Submerged" plants in the "Key"6 which will indicate to me what to look for. I do not see the Aldrovanda you mention in the list or in the Key.7
Again thanking you for your courtesy —
Believe me
Yours sincerely
Charles Maplestone
Baron Von Mueller
Aldrovanda
Cryptostylis
Vic.
Drawing and notes not found.
Word repeated in going from one line to the next.
Letter not found.
Yarra River, Vic.
B88.11.02, p. 541.
M expected this genus to be found other than in Qld where it had been found in 1867, and was asking collectors to seek it; see, for example B89.09.01, M to C. Musson, 3 February 1889, and M to A. Molineux, 2 February 1895.
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 14/3/95'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-95-02-11a,” 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