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Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva. 78.10.11

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1878-10-11. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/78-10-11>, accessed April 20, 2025

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MS written by G. Luehmann and signed by M.
Melbourne, 11th October 1878
Mons. A. de Candolle
Honored and dear Sir
This is written to you from my sick bed by dictation, but I did not like the mail to pass without asking a favor from you. Could you oblige me with a few leaves, one flower and one fruit head of
Myriogyne Cunninghami

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of the original specimen from which your celebrated father described this plant? I require this material for a critical revision of the genus Myriogyne.
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M had previously placed Myriogyne in Centipeda in B74.03.01, p. 142, and maintained that decision in B89.12.03, p. 141. No other treatment of the genus by him has been found.
Enclosed you receive fresh seeds of
Senecio platylepis

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, D.C. I found this plant in vast abundance from the Lachlan to the Murrumbidgee river.
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NSW.
It seems singular that its wide distribution remained so long unknown. The mail just arrived announces that the first volume of your important monographiae
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A. de Candolle & C. de Candolle (1878-96).
has appeared; although this work was ordered many months ago, Dulau & Co missed to send me a copy, so that I shall probably have to wait for four months before I can use the volume. It interests me much on account of the
Restiaceae

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. If
Hypolaena

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and
Calostrophus

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ought really to be united, then Labillardières genus should clearly take precedence, as I have pointed out in the papers of the Royal Society of Tasmania already last year.
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B79.13.14, p. 117.
If you will kindly let me know which orders are to appear in the second volume of the Monographiae I might be able to send you additional material from my constantly increasing Australian collections, assuming that your London agents are still Trübner & Co for transmission.
With regardful remembrance
Yours
Ferd. von Mueller
Would it be possible to get also a fragment of
Alectryon canescens

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D.C.?