446. Acacia armata, R. Br.
456. Cotula1
I should like to have seeds of this and more specimens. Does it grow on brackish soil?2
444. Xerotes
Staminate plant.
451. Hakea ulicina, R. Brown3
Broad-leaved form
457. Leptorrhynchos medius Cunn.4
so far as can be judged in the absence of ripe fruit. L. medius has the majority of fruits ending suddenly in a very thin summit. A usually larger but closely larger species, the L. elongatus, which is more frequent and sure to be near you, has the fruit gradually attenuated upwards.5
464. Goodenia geniculata, R. Br.
463. Diuris pedunculata, R. Br.6
462. Swainsona
fruit also needed when ripe
458. Triglochin mucronata R. Br.
459. Daucus brachiatus Sieber
452. Podospermum7 angustifolium, Labill.8
445. Hakea rugosa, R. Br.
448. Sprengelia incarnata Smith
This is the most western locality of this plant. I advise to search the locality for other plants, also the minute kinds, of Tasmanian type.9
453. see 461. Anthemis Cotula L.10
Like to see flower-headlets with ripe fruit.
449. Styphelia ovalifolia Sprengel11
the narrow-leaved form. A rare plant, of which I would like to have fruits (well ripened). How high does it grow? What soil does it like?
447. Senecio
460. I like to see this is a fully advanced state12
425. Calotis hispidula F.v.M.
461. Seems from mere aspect new. Kindly send more specimens with fruit as far advanced as can be got; also say, under what circumstances it occurs?
466. Leeuvenhoekia dubia Sonder13
You may find also L. Sonderi with shorter and broader leaves and red spotted flowers.
469. Dichondra repens Forster14
470. Hypochaeris glabra Linné
(introduced)
474. Caladenia Menziesii R. Br.
471. Diuris Longifolia, R. Br.
460. Helipterum
This is distinct from H. exiguum, and probably new for your colony, but I beg of you not to mention this just now. I think it is identical with a W.A. species, but to decide this positively it would require later on specimens with ripe fruits.15
472. Tillaea macrantha J. Hooker
You are sure to have 4 Tillaeas there aquatic
475. Polytrichum juniperinum Willdenow (Linné)16
476. Fimbriaria Drummondi Taylor17
Perhaps you may find one or two other species there.
467. Aphelia Pumilio F.v.M.
This is a more western locality than hitherto known. If later in the year you could kindly procure some seeding specimens in maturity I should be much indebted to you18
468. Mitrasacme paradoxa R. Br.
You may find there also the still smaller M. distylis
477. Eutaxia empetrifolia Schlechtendal
479. Medicago denticulata Willdenow
Small form. Fruit unripe.
Without any number Sagina procumbens Linné
The minute grass among the Plantago is probably Festuca bromoides L.
The difficulties of distinguishing algs from outer aspect are long and well recognized, and you may remember that I urged in my earliest letters to you to look for specimens with fruit-like or budlike organs.
485. Claytonia Australasica J. Hooker
482. Arthropodium19
Kindly spread out some fresh flowers.
487. Tillaea verticillaris, De Candolle
486. Styphelia Richei, Labill.
484. Thelymitra20
Flowers not well expanded.
483. Xerotes
Staminate plant.
480. Polycarpaea tetraphylla Loeffling21
481. Name later if distinct from 480.22
(introduced)
478. Drosera Menziesii, R. Br.
Seeds and tuber later in the season acceptable
494. Daviesia mimosoides R. Br.
In reality only a large form of D. Corymbosa Sm.
493. Daviesia ulicina, Sm.23
492. Hibbertia acicularis (Lab.) F.v.M.24
Form with sessile flowers
491. Senecio Cunninghami, De Candolle25
490. Styphelia virgata, Labill.
489. " large form of 490.
488. Viola hederacea, Labillard.
500. Hydrocotyle capillaris F.v.M.
(Kindly collect some seeds specially of this if near you)
497. Scirpus26
Fruit not ripe.
498. Triglochin centrocarpa Hooker
The typic plant has sessile flowers and fruits; this one of yours has the fruits on stocklets, but both forms seem to pass into each other. T. calcitrapa has spurred fruits. You may also find it there yet.
501. Tillaea macrantha J. Hooker
495. Scirpus cartilagineus Sprengel
Several of these minute annual species of Scirpus occur. When the fruits are ripe you can easily see the differences with an ordinary lense.
503. Didiscus pusillus, F.v.M.
504. Centrolepis aristata, R. & S.
505. Juncus bufonius Linnë
506. Sebaea ovata, R. Brown
You may find the S. albidiflora with whitish flowers and thickish leaves there also on brackish soil.
507. Opercularia varia, Hooker
495. 498.? Rutidosis Pumilio27 Bentham
499. Candollea despecta, F.v.M.
496. Centrolepis polygyna, Hieronymus
407. Galium
Impossible to name the species, til ripe fruits are obtained.28
510. Heleocharis acuta, R. Br.29
a pale form.
Let me advise you, to observe there, whether you can distinguish some similar plants there, as allied species may be near you, best to be distinguished by the fully matured fruit, also by the creeping or not creeping root.
519. Rumex
Imperfect. A difficult genus with several species immigrated
522. Agrostis30
Anthers and roots are also important for distinction in this genus
520. Deflorated
521. Poa caespitosa G. Forster
so far as can be said in the absence of leaves.
294. Angianthus Preissianus Bentham31
508. Angianthus strictus Bentham
It was by a mere memory error that I gave the wrong name for this. I collected and named both already in 1848 at St. Vincents Gulf, identifying then already both with plants described under other names from W.A.
Mr. Fischer has just sent a kind letter of acknowledgement. My greeting to him.32
Acacia armata
Agrostis
Angianthus Preissianus
Angianthus strictus
Anthemis Cotula
Aphelia Pumilio
Arthropodium
Caladenia Menziesii
Calotis hispidula
Candollea despecta
Centrolepis aristata
Centrolepis polygyna
Claytonia Australasica
Cotula
Daucus brachiatus
Daviesia Corymbosa
Daviesia mimosoides
Daviesia ulicina
Dichondra repens
Didiscus pusillus
Diuris Longifolia
Diuris pedunculata
Drosera Menziesii
Eutaxia empetrifolia
Festuca bromoides
Fimbriaria Drummondi
Galium
Goodenia geniculata
Hakea rugosa
Hakea ulicina
Heleocharis acuta
Helipterum
Helipterum exiguum
Hibbertia acicularis
Hydrocotyle capillaris
Hypochaeris glabra
Juncus bufonius
Leeuvenhoekia dubia
Leeuvenhoekia Sonderi
Leptorrhynchos elongatus
Leptorrhynchos medius
Medicago denticulata
Mitrasacme distylis
Mitrasacme paradoxa
Opercularia varia
Plantago
Poa caespitosa
Podospermum angustifolium
Polycarpaea tetraphylla
Polytrichum juniperinum
Rumex
Rutidosis Pumilio
Sagina procumbens
Scirpus
Scirpus cartilagineus
Sebaea albidiflora
Sebaea ovata
Senecio
Senecio Cunninghami
Sprengelia incarnata
Styphelia
Styphelia ovalifolia
Styphelia Richei
Styphelia virgata
Swainsona
Thelymitra
Tillaea macrantha
Tillaea macrantha
Tillaea verticillaris
Triglochin calcitrapa
Triglochin centrocarpa
Triglochin mucronata
Viola hederacea
Xerotes
Two specimens of Cotula vulgaris with this number are at MEL, each dated 1895, with one dated more precisely as 4 October 1895.
J. Hussey to M, 5 October 1895 (in this edition as 95-10-05a) may be an answer to this question.
The number is used twice at MEL, in each case for an undated specimen of Hakea carinata, for which H. ulcina is a synonym.
The specimen is dated 4 October 1895, suggesting it might have been sent with J. Hussey to M, 5 October 1895 (in this edition as 95-10-05a), although the letter mentions only Cotula.
Paragraph published in Kraehenbuehl (1981a), p. 395, including number and species name, but with '(= Leptorhynchos)' after the genus; some differences in punctuation; 'L. medium has the fruits ending suddenly in a very thin summit', i.e. omitting 'majority of'. Kraehenbuehl has several quotations from this letter (each noted below) but does not indicate that they are from the same determination list.
This number is not used for a Hussey specimen at MEL.
Podosperma?
The number is used twice at MEL, once for an 1895 specimen of Podotheca angustifolia, of which Podosperma angustifolium is a synonym, and once for an undated specimen of Spongoclonium, an alga.
Paragraph published in Kraehenbuehl (1981a), p. 395, including '448. Sprengelia' but no species name; also has '… also the hirsute kinds …'.
There is a specimen of this species collected by Hussey, record number 2, dated 1895, but that number is not found on any extant determination sheet.
No number with this name in MEL; the number is used for an undated specimen of the alga Platysiphonia victoriae.
The number is used twice at MEL, Hyalosperma demissum, each collected 1895 with one dated 'October'. The number is used again on this determination sheet, for an Helipterum; H. exiguum is a synonym of Hyalosperma demissum.
The recognised spelling is Levenhookia. M used that and Leewenhoekia or Levenhookia in his publications.
No Hussey specimen with this number at MEL.
Paragraph published in Kraehenbuehl (1981a), p. 395, starting '460. A Helipterum'; and with the following differences in the text: '… but I beg of you not to mention this quite soon …'; '… but to divide this positively it would require ripe fruits…'. '(= H. demissum)' is inserted after ' H. exiguum'.
No Hussey specimen with this number at MEL.
No Hussey specimen with this number at MEL. Given by Renner et al. (2024), p. 35, as a synonym of Asterella drummondi.
Paragraph published in Kraehenbuehl (1981a), p. 395, starting '467. Aphelia pumilio. This is …'. No other differences between texts.
No Hussey specimen with this number at MEL.
Number used twice for Hussey specimens, Thelymitra bracteata and T. brevifolia, each dated 1895.
No Hussey specimen with this number at MEL
No Hussey specimen with this number at MEL.
No Hussey specimen with this number at MEL.
No Hussey specimen with this number at MEL.
No Hussey specimen with this number at MEL.
No Hussey specimen with this number at MEL; it is used again for the same genus in M. to J. Hussey, January 1896 (in this edition as 96-01-00g).
R. pumilo? The entry '495. 498.?' may be the transcriber's indication of an uncertain reading. Record number 498 at MEL is identified as Siloxerus multiflorus, of which R. pumilo is a synonym; record number 495 is identified as the unrelated Daviesia ulicifolia.
Hussey has written '(509. Festuca bromoides)' below this entry.
Number used twice for Hussey specimens, both Eleocharis acuta (of which Heleocharis is an orthographic variant), each dated 1895. The number is used again for Heleocharis acuta in M to J. Hussey, 25 October 1895.
Kraehenbuehl (1981a), p. 395, has '510. Eleocharis acuta. As allied species may be near you, best to be distinguished by the fully matured fruit, also by the creeping or not creeping root.'
Number used twice for Hussey specimens, one an undated Lachnagrostis (of which Agrostis is a synonym), the other the unrelated Plantago lanceolata dated 1896, included in the list M to J. Hussey, January 1896 (in this edition as 96-01-00g) as a Plantago not in fruit.
A previous specimen with the same number was sent earlier; see M to J. Hussey, November 1894 (in this edition as 94-11-00c). The record number is used twice for this species at MEL, one dated 1894, the other 1895, both Angianthus preissianus.
In M to J. Hussey, 1894 (in this edition as 94-00-00b), M identifies 'Mr Fischer' as one of D. L. T. Fischer's sons; it is probably Friedrich Theodore Fischer of Hindmarsh Valley, close to Port Elliot where Hussey lived.
Item is a typescript, transcriber unknown, ca. 1977 from an original MS in the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide.
Hussey specimens with record numbers from this list now in MEL that match by name, or are synonyms (AVH, accessed 4 August 2024; APC accessed 4 September 2024), are dated 1895, except that numbers 453, 467-8 and 470-4 are dated 1894. Record number 457 is dated 4 October 1895; number 465 is not in any determination list, but a Cotula with that number is mentioned in J. Hussey to M, 5 October 1895 (in this edition as 95-10-05a), and there are two specimens numbered 465 and listed as Cotula vulgaris, each dated 5 October 1895, in MEL. Although the two specimens of number 465 may have been sent with Hussey's letter, which was found with MEL 2159523, another specimen of Cotula vulgaris is listed as number '[?]465'. Assuming that Hussey's letter is not a response to M's question under '456', the item is dated to early October 1895 as the earliest it is likely to have been sent, consistent with the list following on from M to J. Hussey, September 1895 (in this edition as 95-09-00f) and record numbers between 512 and 519 included in M to J. Hussey, 13 November 1895.
Please cite as “FVM-95-10-00f,” 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