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Ferdinand von Mueller to Gottfried Häcker, 1845-04-??.
Husum, April 1845. ¶ ¶ The motive, dear Sir, which induces me to address these words to you, sprang from the wish to express my fitting gratitude for the beautiful ¶ Lübeckische Flora ¶ , ¶ which y...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Samuel Hannaford, 1873-05-??.
¶ In reference to your questions, I would remark that I received ¶ Lobelia pratioides ¶ as far back as 1848, from the vicinity of South Esk, ¶ and recognised it rightly as a new species which I na...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1878-04-04.
Thursday ¶ ¶ I write this from Gippsland, dear Mr Ramsay, and will return to you the NZ Cyperaceae & Restiaceae so soon as I return. ¶ It is not in my recollection that your letter asked for the ret...
Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1880-06-01.
¶ [Sent Baron Mueller a specimen of Nepenthes Bernays ¶ & the red-fruited Solanum with also a diagnosis of the plant, notes on S. humile W. which I consider the procumbent form of S. nigrum and also...
Ferdinand von Mueller to a resident of Sydney, 1881-06-??.
I still would warn children not to consume the berries of the Solanum nigrum, as at any time a ¶ large ¶ quantity taken may prove very deleterious, though they may eat perhaps a small lot with impun...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1883-10-20.
20/10/83 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Professor Tate, I received the proof-slips of your ¶ very able ¶ article on Kangaroo-Island, ¶ and as I was not pressed with official work this (Saturday) afternoon, I ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1895-05-??.
The herb is the British annual nightshade, solanum nigrum. Poison cases have often arisen in Australia from this herb, the seeds of which easily find their way wherever colonisation, and with that any...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Australasian, 1896-06-??.
The black night shade, Solanum nigrum, was employed as a medicinal plant by Theophrastos more than 300 years before the Christian era, and he and Dioskorides and other ancient physicians distinguished...