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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson   5 July 1896

Sunday 5/7/96

As this is a favorable season for moisture, dear Mr Williamson, I would like to ask, whether you could easily procure 100 flowering and 100 fruiting specimens of Mitrasacme distylis and perhaps also of the very rare Leeuwenhookia1 Sonderi. In France I have started an international collection of rare plants (in dried specimens),2 and if you could contribute to the sets, for which the Subscribers are there secured these tiny plants, your honored name as the Gatherer would be put on the printed labels. As these little things are so easily dried and gathered, you might even get still more specimens of them, avoiding however the risk of annihilating them in any locality there.

With regardful remembrance your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Mitrasacme distylis

Leeuwenhookia Sonderi

1

Leeuvenhookia? See M to H. Williamson, 20 September 1894, n. 1.

2

For the proposal to establish the 'publication' of collections of exsiccatae, under the auspices of the International Academy of Botanical Geography (Académie Internationale de Géographie Botanique), see B93.11.02.

Please cite as “FVM-96-07-05,” 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/96-07-05