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Archives, Sisters of St Joseph, Perthville, NSW. 57.11.04

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Julian Tenison Woods, 1857-11-04. 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//letters/1850-9/1857/57-11-04-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

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Melbourne bot. Garden
4. Nov. 1857
Dear Mr Wood.
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your kind note with enclosure,
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but regret that according to the rules of the Institute (of which I will send a copy as soon as published) no communication can be inserted in our journal, which received previous publicity. However I hope that you will give us from your rich store of observations an original paper soon. This would give you claim to a corresponding membership, otherwise I shall gladly propose you in the ordinary way.
Your valuable paper I shall be happy to forward in my next letter to Sir Roderick Murchison, with whom I am in communication on geographical matters.
The structure of the flower of
Stylidium graminifolium

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, a common plant of S. Austr, Vict, N.S.W. & V.D.L,
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Van Diemen's Land.
is as follows. Male and femal organs joined on the apex of an flexil irritable column. 2 anthers, 1 stigma between them. A lateral gland, often veritable in Stylidium.
I remain your most attached servant
Ferd Mueller