The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Easter 1881. ¶ ¶ The Eremophila, sent by you, dear Prof Tate, is a tomentose form of the true E. viridiflora, ¶ but that again verges very closely to E. Brownii. What you sent as doubtfully as Antho...

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Acacia pravifolia
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1881-04-17 [81.04.17b]. 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/81-04-17b>, accessed September 11, 2025

Easter 1881.

In 1881, Easter fell on 17 April.

The Eremophila, sent by you, dear Prof Tate, is a tomentose form of the true E. viridiflora,

Given, without description, as E. viridifolia in Tate (1880), p. 79. M had used it as a variety name: MEL 82358 is labelled by M as var viridiflora, and there is a specimen of the variety at Kew, K961392, also with a label by M, and with one of Bentham's Flora australiensis labels, recognising it as a variety named by M; see Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, p. 28. See also M to R. Tate, 3 February 1881.

but that again verges very closely to E. Brownii. What you sent as doubtfully as = , Steetz. The Hakea = H. multilineata, Meissner.

You shall have the exact name of all the lichens after careful examination

and are lichens.

I find just now from the examination of an original specimen of the West Austr. , that it was wrongly combined with T. recurva;

See Bentham (1863-78), vol. 2, p. 452.

so the latter name must be adopted.

Did I tell you that had been added to your flora of S.A.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller

I have now a new number of the fragmenta passing through the press, which will give you some more data also on S.A. plants. Thus the name has to be restored, as the original A. sublanata is quite different

B81.08.03, p. 117.