From Ferdinand von Mueller to Jessie Hussey   [Sep 1895]

433. Pultenaea daphnoides Smith

432. Acacia verticillata, Willdenow

431. Myoporum viscosum, R. Br.

430. Erodium

Are the fresh petals blue or pink? In the latter case this would be perhaps only a form of E. cicutarium l'Heritier.

429. Senecio.

Introduced. Specific name later.1

428. Pterostylis barbata, Lindley2

424. Acianthus exsertus, R. Br.

also 425

422. Diuris longifolia, R. Br.3

421. Cardamine parviflora, Linné4

442. Silene Gallica, Linné

440. Centrolepis strigosa, Roemer & Schultes

441. Gnaphalium indutum, J. Hooker

436. Siegesbeckia orientalis, Linné

439. Vicia Sativa, Linné

435. Emex australis, Steinheil5

437. Caesia vittata, R. Brown

An allied species with smaller whitish flowers is C. parviflora. You have it also likely there.

438. Microseris Forsteri, J. Hooker

might by cultivation be rendered an esculent for root.

434. Lupinus6

Perhaps form of L. varius L. or L. hirsutus L. Fruit also required.

With best greeting

Ferd. von Mueller

Acacia verticillata

Acianthus exsertus

Caesia parviflora

Caesia vittata

Cardamine parviflora

Centrolepis strigosa

Diuris longifolia

Emex australis

Erodium cicutarium

Gnaphalium indutum

Lupinus hirsutus

Lupinus varius

Microseris Forsteri

Myoporum viscosum

Pterostylis barbata

Pultenaea daphnoides

Senecio

Siegesbeckia orientalis

Silene Gallica

Vicia Sativa

This number is not used in the Hussey collection at MEL

Pterostylis barbarta is not listed as a synonym of P. curta, the name used for this number at MEL.

Diuris longifolia is not listed as a synonym of D. pardina, the name used for this number at MEL.

Cardamine parviflora is not listed as a synonym of C. papillata. the name used for this number at MEL.

This number is not used in the Hussey collection at MEL.

This number is not used in the 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.

All the plant names used by M match the details given for MEL (AVH, accessed 4 August 2024), are synonyms or match to genus (APC, accessed 29 August 2024). All are dated to 1895. Record numbers 420 and 423 are missing from this sequence but are the only two numbers used in M to J. Hussey, September 1895 (in this edition as 95-09-00e), the letter that assured her that a parcel of plants had not been left unexamined. It is likely that that note was sent as soon as this parcel arrived, before the remaining specimens were determined. The sequence here is followed by that in M to J. Hussey, October 1895 (in this edition as 95-10-00f) where some specimens are dated to 4 October 1995. The present item is therefore dated to September as the latest date it could have been written.

Please cite as “FVM-95-09-00f,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/95-09-00f