The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 17/7/96 ¶ ¶ It needs not my assurance, dear Prof Sechell, that I will always name for you plants, more particularly those from Australia, concerning which you may have doubts there. ¶ In the great g...

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University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley. 96.07.17

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Setchell, 1896-07-17. 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/96-07-17>, accessed September 11, 2025

17/7/96

It needs not my assurance, dear Prof Sechell, that I will always name for you plants, more particularly those from Australia, concerning which you may have doubts there.

M may have been responding to Setchell's thanking him for an earlier set of identifications; see M to W. Setchell, 6 March 1896 (in this edition as 96-03-06a).

In the great genera, such as and , it needs however specimens as well in flower as in fruit. If you made out a list, which species you have already, I could send the seeds of additional kinds as opportunities may arise from time to time.

I shall be greatly beholden to you if you will kindly for the forth coming 10th Edition

Never published.

of the "Select Plants" furnish notes on important West-American Grasses and fodder-herbs and other prominently utilitarian plants not yet recorded in that work.

Perhaps my old friend, Dr Behr, may from his long experience afford you also some rural data.

Can you kindly send seeds of , as it is so much praised as an honey-plant

Very regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller