The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 3/2/81 ¶ Dear Professor ¶ ¶ I have looked over your index of S.A. extratrop plants ¶ & am much gratified with it. It gives a good idea of the flora there and of the distribution of its constituents....

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Adiantum hispidum
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Alchemilla arvensis
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Eremophila viridiflora
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Eucalyptus incrassata
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Geijera salicifolia var parviflora
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Glossodia minor
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Heterodendron oleifolium
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Humea squamata
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Kennedya monophylla
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Lythrum
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Melothria Muelleri
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Myriophyllum variifolium
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Osmunda
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Picris
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Senecio odoratus
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1881-02-03. 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/81-02-03>, accessed September 11, 2025

3/2/81

Dear Professor

I have looked over your index of S.A. extratrop plants

Tate (1880). M's comments on elements of that list are not systematically noted to page numbers in the notes below, except where it is necessary to understand M's text.

& am much gratified with it. It gives a good idea of the flora there and of the distribution of its constituents. When the inland & water flora shall have become better known, you will be likely able to advance the number of species to 2000, though adding hardly new spec. to science

, not uncommon on the Murray-sands between the great bend

Murray Bend, SA.

& the junction of the Darling-River, we have missed.

The Rev J. Tenison-Woods must have either mixed plants from other colonies with South Austral species, or may have determined species wrongly. Thus

Given correctly as Adiantum hispidulum by Tate, p. 89.

& are certainly nowhere inmates of S.A., as they do not extend to Tasmania and occur first only in East Gippsland with subtropical coast-plants.

would be the oldest name, but the typic plant does not occur in S.A.

is Desfontaines's plant, is Persoon's, is Ventenats, is Beauvois's.

Of Geijera salicifolia only the desert-form parviflora

Variety name not found; however, the species name G. parviflora, described by Lindley (1848), p. 102, was used by M in B62.03.03, pp. 108-9, and elsewhere, and was listed in B89.12.03, p. 21.

occurs in your territory

Spergularia, Kennedya and Geijera are each marked with a tick.

Some of the plants like , , Chenop

Chenopodium.

glaucum could be eliminated as probably introduced.

Rubus = R. parvifolius

Myrioph = M variifolium

I find Euc.

Eucalyptus.

dumosa only to be a var

var is marked with an interlined tick.

of Euc. incrassata. A few more Victorian plants, such as are likely to reach across to S.A. Senecio [hypoglaucus]

Given correctly as Senecio hypoleucus by Tate, p. 73; hypoglaucus and odoratus are each marked with a tick.

is a var. of S. odoratus. Many species are of the younger D.C. = A. de Cand as &c

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller

not in S. A.

not

Eremophila vir idiflora .

Given without a description as E. viridifolia in Tate (1880), p. 79, the name presumably being based on M's E. brownii var viridiflora from Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, p. 28, which Bentham considered 'almost deserving to be reckoned a distinct species'. See also M to R. Tate, 17 April 1881 (in this edition as 81-04-17b).This entry has been ticked.

is only a section of .

Can you kindly spare a few more copies of the Census?