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Physical location:

DX19, Cotton/Story Papers, University of Tasmania Archives, Hobart. 70.06.30

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to George Story, 1870-06-30. 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/1870-9/1870/70-06-30-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS annotation by Story: Dr Mueller 30/6/79|
Didymotheca thesioides

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J. Hkr.
Melbourne bot Garden
30/6/70
I ought to have written to you, dear Dr Story, long before this, to acknowledge the safe arrival of the sedges, grasses, waterplants &c which you so kindly secured this year. I was so much harrassed in my department, that I could really not gain the time for any exclusively botanical matters, this being the planting season and my time much occupied, especially since the Department became so much disorganized.
Your collection contains the rare
Didymotheca thesioides

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, J Hooker, besides new localities for Ricinocarpus
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Ricinocarpos? In Story's hand (3182) above Ricinocarpus.
pinifolius [Desfont.],
Caustis pentandra

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RBr, Hierochloa
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Hierochloe? In Story's hand 755 Gram. dysarrhenum Lab 83-t332) above Hierochloa. The reference is to a discussion of a grass [Gramineae abbreviated?], Disarrenum antarcticum, in Labillardère (1804-06), vol 2, p. 83 and plate 232.
rariflora J Hook., and a few other. So I hope you will feel sufficiently encouraged to watch the plants around you.
Let me hope your health is firm & your mind cheerful.
With best regards
Ferd. von Mueller.
I hope you got the Cork Oaks &c &c safely through Mr Abbotts mediation