23/9/96
On dissection I find, dear Miss Hussey, that 563 is Carex paniculata, Linné.
565 is also a Carex, but is far too young to make it out.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
562 has no flowers but a fungus growth1
Carex paniculata
All but postscript published in Kraehenbuehl (1981a), p. 393, but with 'Respectfully' instead of 'Regardfully'.
Item is a typescript, transcriber unknown, prepared ca. 1977 from an original MS in the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide.
The record numbers commented upon were included in a determination list M to J. Hussey, September 1896 (in this edition as 96-09-00i). Other specimens collected in September 1896 (were not determined before M died.
M began to feel unwell in early September, mentioning his 'indisposition' in M to A. Sicha, 7 September 1896 and later correspondents. No letters from M dated October 1896 have been found. M was very unwell before he died; his Vic death certificate (15261/1896) states that his final illness lasted 16 days before his death of 'Apoplexia. Cerebri Sanguinea' ('Apoplexy, brain blood', i.e. 'stroke') on 10 October 1896. The four known letters from M written on or after 24 September 1896 are explicitly said to have been dictated.
Please cite as “FVM-96-09-23,” 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