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ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 87.02.03
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Claudea Bennettiana
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Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1887-02-03. 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/87-02-03>, accessed September 11, 2025
3/2/87
A letter has just reached me, dear Dr Ramsay, from the greatest living Algologist,
Prof. Agardh,
in which he expresses his full concurrence with my views, that the
must be transferred to an other genus, and that it is nearer Vanvorstia
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See J. Agardh to M, 25 December 1886 (in this edition as 86-12-25b).
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But it may be, as he admits, the type of a new genus, should the
fruits
exhibit any particular peculiarities. Now, as you have discovered a new locality
for this beautiful and rare plant, it would be well, if you could kindly follow up
your discovery, so that also the
fruit
may be obtained and the other organs of propagation or generation. Of course you
will get every acknowledgement.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.