The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 23/6/81. ¶ ¶ Your Calocephalus Sonderi, dear Prof. Tate, is Helipterum moschatum Benth. Your Pluchea Eyrea is Podolepis Siemsseni. ¶ If you have two weeks free in August, go to Kangaroo-Island, ¶ w...

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Achyranthes aspera
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1881-06-23. 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/81-06-23>, accessed September 11, 2025

23/6/81.

Your , dear Prof. Tate, is Benth. Your is .

See Tate (1880), pp. 71, 70 respectively. MS annotation by Tate: 'error attributable to Tepper'.

If you have two weeks free in August, go to Kangaroo-Island,

All places mentioned are in SA.

which is so accessible now , and may have still more endemic plants, as I have shown to exist there.

M did not himself collect on Kangaroo Island; see notes to M to O. Tepper, 29 January 1885.

Anyhow the localities for many rare species would be new. If you have a few days occasionally, then finish the exploration of the vicinity of Encounter-Bay.

In the Mallee on the way to Victoria may also yet be rarities. It is as well, if you keep this advise to yourself, so that you are not forestalled, and even the material perhaps came neither in your nor my hands.

I have no copy of the Rev Mr Kempe's list at hand;

Kempe (1880).

but the addenda, of which I kept notes for your census are:

Each of the plant names in the list that follows is preceded by a tick; they are included in Tate (1882b), read 4 October 1881.

F.v.M.

L Kempe

Zaleia

i.e. Zaleija. It is spelled correctly in Tate (1882b), p. 102.

decandra Burm. ( ) Lk

Lake.

Torrens Lattorp

G. E. H. Lattorff here and below.

F.v.M. Mt Gambier (Brown)

There are two specimens at MEL collected by J. Ednie Brown at Mount Gambier, one (MEL 0103408) dated to 1879 and the other undated.

, Hooker (Kempe)

, F.v.M. Murray-River in S.A. (FvM) also from Kempe.

, Allioni Kempe.

Bth Lk

Lake.

Torrens Lattorp

FvM Several places in the interior of S.A. (extratropic)

is also a mere

This entry has been separated from the others by lines above and below It, and neither this name nor a appears in Tate (1882b).

Stipa Tuckeri, F.v.M. n. sp. Mallee-Scrub.

This is in print for the next number of the fragm.

B81.08.03, p. 128.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.