Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M19, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 73.00.00e

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Daniel Sullivan to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1873 [73.00.00e]. 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/1870-9/1873/73-00-00e-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Galium murale (MEL 2265782).
Dating is very uncertain. Sullivan was at Moyston from 1868 until his death in 1895; there is no fruit specimen of Calotis anthemoides at MEL recorded as from Sullivan to suggest a probable end date but the reference to the October 1872 collection of
Leptorrhynchus medius

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implies a date later than that. There are no later Sullivan specimens of L. elongatus (AVH accessed 2 June 2023). The item is therefore dated to 1873 as the earliest likely date that it could have been written.
Moyston
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Vic.
Sunday
Sir F. Baron Von Mueller
Dear Sir
I thank your very much for naming the plants for me. I have made a diligent search for
Leptorrhynchus elongatus

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, but so far unsuccessful. There only appears to be three species in the vicinity of the Township viz. L. squamatus, L. tenuifolia,
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L. tenuifolius?
& L. medius. L. medius is, I think, always annual, but if it should turn out otherwise I will let you know.
Galium Australe

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, and, in fact, all the species with which I am acquainted give yellowish white flowers. Fruit specimens herewith — some ripe & others not. A little later I will send more.
Your other wants as regards fruit specimens I will, if possible, supply in due time.
Calotis Anthemoides

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is not yet ripe.
I must have made some mistake respecting Lept. elongatus in Oct. 1872, as my specimens of that date turn out to be L. medius.
The plant will not be lost sight of by me during my walks in the bush.
With best respects
I remain, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully
D. Sullivan.