To Baron von Mueller
Melbourne
My Lord
Your kind letter of the 21st inst1 came duly to hand, I will note carefully the contents and write again soon. On Monday & yesterday I spent a long time in the hills and gullies near Port Elliot, searching for minute plants, and orchids, some of which I send by same post — I also brought down a good number of tubers of the orchid no 427 (Pterostylis not yet determined) I will send these tubers to you in moss in a day or two The Cotula no 456 is growing on brackish quaggy low lying soil, and if the plant no 465 is the same Cotula it grows amongst the granite rocks high & dry, except that the sea spray frequently dashes over it2 — I am taking careful notice of the little Plantago, and think it is only a small form of P. varia, as this plant is now taking the place of the smaller one — I will send more specimens of the minute plants soon.
This week I received a letter from Mrs Weber-Van Bosse3 — she is well, and says "We are passing the summer in a most lovely spot in the middle of a very large forest. It is a most delightful place, but sea algae are wanting! I console myself with fresh water ones of which I have also a collection" —
I shall4 be writing to Mrs Weber early next week and will give her your message —
With kind regards
I am Yours Sincerely
Jessie. L. Hussey
Pt Elliot
25/9/95
Cotula
Plantago varia
Pterostylis
Letter not found.
J. Hussey to M, 5 October 1895 (in this edition as 95-10-05a) reports collecting more of the Cotulas.
Dutch phycologist, based in Eerbeek.
Kraehenbuehl (1981a), p. 396, has 'will'; there are also minor differences in punctuation.
MS found with a specimen of Plantago coronopus subspecies commutata (MEL 2246804).
Please cite as “FVM-95-09-25a,” 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