Document information

Physical location:

State Library of South Australia, Adelaide. 93.11.19

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Jessie Hussey, 1893-11-19. 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/93-11-19>, accessed September 11, 2025

19/11/93.
Your present specimens came only 2 days after your last letter, dear Miss Hussey, so I can do the naming only now. The Xerotes, just received, is X. dura FvM. It is a comparatively rare species.
The information on the scent of
Logania crassifolia

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interests me greatly for reasons, which you will soon [see] all explained in print
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Nothing matching this description written by M has been found.
Veronica distans

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would make a neat pot plant in European bot. Gardens. So ripe seeds would be welcome. Best thanks for the seeds of
Logania crassifolia

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Strange to say, specimens of
Frankenia

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with ripe seeds are wanting in my large collection of dried plants, which I commenced 1839, which fills two large halls, and which amounts to about one million sheets!
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
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Cynodon Dactylon

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, Linné.
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Briza maxima

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, Linné.