The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 6/6/78. ¶ ¶ Allow me to ask you, dear and venerable M. Boissier, whether you could mention to me the principal ¶ fodder-herbs ¶ and ¶ nutritive ¶ ¶ grasses ¶ (4) of the pasturage of the Orient....

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Conservatoire et Jardin botanique, Geneva. 78.06.06

Plant names

Astragalus
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmond Boissier, 1878-06-06. 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/1870-9/1878/78-06-06-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

See also M to E. Boissier, 12 July 1875.

6/6/78.

Allow me to ask you, dear and venerable M. Boissier, whether you could mention to me the principal fodder-herbs and nutritive grasses (4) of the pasturage of the Orient.

I am eager to issue a new edition of my select plants, of which work assuredly a copy exists in Genève,

B76.12.04.

in this new edition

B80.13.07.

I like to include any important utilitarian plants of your grand "Flora orientalis",

Boissier (1867-88). The first three volumes of this work and the first part of the fourth volume were in print by 1878.

which I may have omitted in the early issue of my work.

You will have observed, that I give due credit to any one, who favors me with notes. I fancy, that many of the Astragali Trifolii &c are there of highly pastoral value

Let me hope, that young Mons. Boissier is making good progress with his monography of .

An error for Boissier's son-in-law William Barbey who published an atlas of 25 plates illustrating (Barbey (1885))?

With regardful remembrance

Ferd. von Mueller