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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 383. 69.05.19

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1869-05-19. 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/1860-9/1869/69-05-19-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

19/5/69
The enclosed Teucrium, dear Mr Bentham, may be actually your T. sessiliflorum in an abnormal state or in its highest developed form, and I may have erred in uniting T. sessilifolium
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Error for T. sessiliflorum?
& T. trifidum of Schl.
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B68.02.03, p. 110; Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, p. 135 concurred in uniting the two.
As my
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are in Kew, I send this, so that you may deal with it finally.
I am suffering from a deepseated and thus very obstinate bronchitis, which, if it becomes chronic, as still the cool season is before me may become serious, especially to one with such tendency to phthisis.
I hope you are well. I will do what I can in my little sparetime to push the
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through my preliminary work & much has been done towards it in past years.
Should you receive any plants from Goyders Expedition,
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Goyder led an expedition in 1869-70 to survey the Northern Territory and to select a site for a coastal township; see Goyder (1869). See also J. Blackmore to M, 26 May 1869 (in this edition as 69-05-26b).
then pray bear in mind that I shall also have a share with a view of examining such as may be new.
These new ones, if any, will be limited in number and be best here worked up, I should think, unless such as pertain to orders just in your hands.
With kind regards
your
Ferd von Mueller
I have a good deal of manuscript in the printers hand for the 7. vol. of Fragm.