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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 317. 90.04.06a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1890-04-06 [90.04.06a]. 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/90-04-06a>, accessed September 11, 2025

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MS black-edged; M's brother-in-law George Doughty died on 26 March 1890.
Annotated by Thiselton-Dyer below M's text: And 13.7.90 (letter not found) and:
We have no specimen authenticated by R. Br as V. nana
flower of Ipomoea from Banks & Solander (Brit. Mus) sent
Easter /1890
2
Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 19. May. 90. In 1890, Easter fell on 6 April.
Would it be possible, dear Mr Dyer, to spare me a few fragments of R. Br's
Vallisneria nana

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? Mr Bailey sent me, what he describes as V gracilis, and that, so far as his material shows, accords exactly with the diagnosis given by R. Br. of V. nana, both being from tropical Australia. Since Sir Jos. Hooker set out several
Blyxa

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s,
3
J. Hooker (1875-97), vol. 5, pp. 660-1.
it may be desirable, to investigate the specific limits within Valisneria also. Bentham however seems to have entertained no doubts, that V. nana was merely a form of V. spiralis;
4
Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, p. 259.
so Mr Bailey's plant may really be different from it.
5
See also M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 27 March 1890.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Bailey sent no ripe fruit, nor ♂ fl.
Could
Ipomoea urceolata

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MS annotation interlined in pencil above the end of urceolata: not in [706].
be reexamined with a view of settling, whether it is a
Lepistemon

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, as I believe, but as Schumann doubts.
7
Schumann & Hollrung (1889), p. 116.