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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Australasian, 1864-12-05 [64.12.05b]. 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/1860-9/1864/64-12-05b-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Notes and queries', Australasian, 10 December 1864, p. 9 (B64.12.06).
Sir,—
In the last number of your instructive paper a correspondent records the supposed occurrence of two epiphytal orchids in the Terrick Terrick Ranges.
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'R. H. N.', in 'Notes and Queries', Australasian, 3 December 1864, p. 9.
Having advanced, in a previous number of your journal, the statement that within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria no epiphytal orchids are known to exist, except at Apollo Bay and in the remotest east of Gipps Land,
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'Melbourne orchids' in 'Notes and Queries', Australasian, 19 November 1864, p. 9,
I feel called upon to remark that, from the intelligent observations of your correspondent, it is evident that the plants he alludes to are mistletoes, of which some Australian species produce gorgeous flowers. The Loranthus, with cord-like leaves, found, though, by no means exclusively, on
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(or so-called Sheoaks), is well known as Loranthus preissii, and widely dispersed throughout the Australian continent.
Allow me, Sir, to offer simultaneously some remarks on a note in the same journal on the supposed absence of anemoneous plants in Victoria. The writer, who evinces a most creditable interest in our flora, calls in question the correctness of my statement, that "all the genuine tribes of
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are found represented in Victoria,"
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An unsigned article, 'The plants of Victoria', Australasian, 3 December 1864, p. 4. The sentence quoted begins 'Dr. Mueller states that …'.
—a statement recorded in my work on the indigenous plants of our colony (vol. 1, page 2)
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B62.02.03. This work was not included in the list of works by M in the article 'Plants of Victoria', n. 4, above.
. In this work the four genuine tribes of this order are characterised, and by reference to this book it will be observed that the
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, through the genus
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,
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Printer's error for Myosurus?
claim a place in an arrangement of Victorian plants, recent researches having transferred that genus to the anemoneous tribe.
With obedience, yours,
FERD. MUELLER
Melbourne, Botanic-gardens, Dec. 5.