Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS 562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 76.01.15

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1876-01-15. 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/1870-9/1876/76-01-15-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

15/1/76.
The plant sent by you, dear Mr Ramsay, is the
Curculigo recurvata

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of Aiton. I gave a full diagnosis of it prior to the 6th vol. of the Flora
1
Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, p. 448.
(see Fragm. VIII, 27
2
B72.03.01, p. 27.
) which Bentham for reasons unexplained did not quote, though I was the first who showed the occurrence of this plant in Australia
Regardfully yr
Ferd von Mueller
Nothing new from the N.?