To Montague Rupp   13 February 1895

13/2/95

 

Your observations on the movement of the leaves of Hibiscus trionum is of considerable interest, dear Mr Rupp, and I will publish them under your name.1

For the additional sending of seeds I am much obliged so also for the revised list of the plants occurring near Hay.2

Regardfully

your Ferd. von Mueller

 

Kindly ascertain, whether I should be justified to recommend the Muehlenbeckia Cunninghami as a fodder-shrub for swampy places in winterless zones. If so, I will insert a note to that effect into the forthcoming edition of the "Select plants".3

Would it be possible to get well matured fruits with perfect seeds be collected there by small pay to children, which outlay I would gladly refund. Among floating & submerged plants and minute plants you would find much novelty yet for N.SW. Thus we have not yet from N.SW. either the Cyperus squarrosus; though it has now been shown to be indigenous so far south as at the Wimmera

 

Cyperus squarrosus

Hibiscus trionum

Muehlenbeckia Cunninghami

 
1
M communicated Rupp’s observations to the Gardeners' chronicle , which reported them in an article headed 'Heliotropism', 6 April 1895, p. 430.
2
NSW. See M to M. Rupp, 9 January 1895.
3
B95.13.02: 'Cattle are very fond of the soft ramifications for feed [M. Rapp]' (p. 317; M's brackets and mis-spelling).

Please cite as “FVM-95-02-13,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/95-02-13