361. Centipeda Cunninghami F.v.M.1
You will have the weaker C. orbicularis (Loureiro) also there, which is also more prostrate; perhaps also C. thespidioides (F.v.M) grows near you. I called them for popular designation "sneeze weeds".
362. Themeda triandra, Forskal2
This is the eldest name for our ordinary Kangaroo grass, as in 1775 it was under this name well described from Arabia. It passed during the first half of the Century under the name Anthistiria australis R. Br. as a species peculiar to Australia, til I identified with the African and S. Asian A. ciliata of the younger Linnaeus, described 1779.3
364. Cassytha pubescens, R. Br.
363. Gomphocarpus fruticosus R. Br.4
Introduced from S. Africa
360. Lobelia anceps, Thunberg
It is very creditable to you, that so high you have scored already in the number of flowering plants gathered by you, especially when it is considered that you have no fern-gullies nor high mountains in your particular precincts.
I suppose 1902 a Monument will be erected at your Bay in remembrance of the friendly "encounter" of Baudin and Flinders there, when Rob. Brown was the Interpretor.5 Your local journal may some day take notice of this event.6
Are still relatives of Mr. Wilson my Colleage in Gregorys Expedit. of 1855-1856 residing at your Bay?7
372. Chenopodium carinatum, R. Br.
371. Gahnia (Cladium)8
Difficult to make out except when ripe fruit is obtained also (as 2 closely allied species exist)
370. Polygonum
Polygonum aviculare, Linné
369. Gahnia carphoides, F.v.M.9
368. Atriplex semibaccatum, R. Br.
If seeds well ripened can in any of your walks without extra effort be obtained, I shall be thankful
367. Inula graveolens, Desfontaines
377. Lepidosperma lineare R. Br.
380. Scirpus nodosus, Rottboell.
379. Solenogyne Emphysopus F.v.M.
Some seeds of this would be very acceptable, if closely at hand.
376. Triglochin striata, Ruiz & Pavon10
375. Aster lepidophyllus, Persoon11
373. Xerotes
and 37412
Xerotes micrantha, Endlicher
It is not easy to determine the species of this genus unless specimens with ripe fruit are accessible also. The staminate and the pistillate flowers occur always on distinct plants. After writing, I see, you sent fruits.
With kind regards
Ferd. von Mueller.
Anthistiria australis
Anthistiria ciliata
Aster lepidophyllus
Atriplex semibaccatum
Cassytha pubescens
Centipeda Cunninghami
Centipeda orbicularis
Centipeda thespidioides
Chenopodium carinatum
Cladium
Gahnia carphoides
Gomphocarpus fruticosus
Inula graveolens
Lepidosperma lineare
Lobelia anceps
Polygonum aviculare
Scirpus nodosus
Solenogyne Emphysopus
Themeda triandra
Triglochin striata
Xerotes micrantha
Record number not used in Hussey collection at MEL
The record number is used twice in the Hussey collection at MEL, Themeda triandra dated 1895 and the alga Rhodopeltis australis dated June 1896.
See discussion in B66.12.04, p. 207.
Record number not used in Hussey collection at MEL.
Interpreter? Robert Brown (1773-1858); see R. Brown (2001), pp. 177-82, entries for 8 and 9 April 1802. Hussey lived at Port Elliot, one of the settlements on Encounter Bay, SA, the name commemorating the encounter there in April 1802 of the French and British exploring expeditions under Baudin and Flinders respectively. A memorial tablet to the meeting was unveiled on 8 April 1902 by the Governor of SA, Lord Tennyson, 'In memory of Flinders', Adelaide observer, 12 April 1902, p. 42; image of memorial placed at 'The Bluff', Encounter Bay, https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+42768).
This and the preceding paragraph have been published in Kraehenbuehl (1981a), p. 394, but are run onto the valediction without an ellipsis, and contains a PS, not present here but from M to J. Hussey, September 1895 (in this edition as 95-09-00h).
James Spottiswoode Wilson; see notes to M to J. Hussey, June 1894 (in this edition as 94-06-00g).
Record number not used in Hussey collection at MEL, but included also in M to J. Hussey, June 1895 (in this edition as 95-06-00g).
Herbarium name; name not in APNI (accessed 24 August 2024). The MEL specimen with this record number is Lepidosperma carphoides.
Record number not used in Hussey collection at MEL.
M's name is synonym only to genus of the name in MEL, Olearia lanuginose.
Record numbers 373 and 374 not used in Hussey collection at MEL.
Item is a typescript, transcriber unknown, prepared ca. 1977 from an original MS in the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide.
M's names match the names used in the Hussey collection in MEL or are synonyms for the record numbers in this list that are at MEL and were collected in 1895 (AVH, accessed 4 August 2024; APC, accessed 24 August 2024). The numbers follow on from M to J. Hussey, March 1895 (in this edition as 95-03-00h) that also includes identification of record number 365 omitted here. It is probable that the set of specimens with this sequence arrived as M was finalizing that letter. On that basis this letter is dated to later in March or early April, but M's mention of the events at Encounter Bay in April 1802 suggest that it might have been written in April and it is therefore tentatively dated to April 1895.
Please cite as “FVM-95-04-00f,” 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