Document information

Physical location:

C7, DX19, Cotton/Story papers, Archives, University of Tasmania, Hobart. 68.02.00

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

George Story to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1868-02. 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/1860-9/1868/68-02-00-final.odt>, accessed May 9, 2026

It appears from thy letter of 12/2mo
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MS is a draft. See M to G. Story, 12 February 1868, on the basis of which the present item is dated to later in February 1868.
that I have not yet made out the
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Euphorbia chamaesyce?
of wh thou wished more spms & to know under what circumstances it is found — I am at a loss to know the plant — Two plants occur to me as likely to be allied to Euph the one which I set down without examinat[io]n to be a Gentian only found on a marsh on the Apsley
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Apsley River, Tas.
& differing in many respects from the Genta Mta
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?
common on our hills
And a stellate flowg
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flowering.
herb on stony ground growing under & &c. both were sent I think