The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 30/8/78. ¶ ¶ I have been on the sickbed for three weeks, dear Mr Buchanan, ¶ and am still so very enfeebled that I cannot write at length. Pray do ¶ not ¶ trouble about the sections of the fern tr...

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Physical location:

A644, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 78.08.30

Plant names

Lepilaena
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Zannichellia palustris
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to John Buchanan, 1878-08-30. 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/1870-9/1878/78-08-30-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

30/8/78.

I have been on the sickbed for three weeks, dear Mr Buchanan,

John Buchanan (1819-1898).

and am still so very enfeebled that I cannot write at length. Pray do not trouble about the sections of the fern trees, unless quite handy. I do not wish to involve you in trouble & expense; I really have no claims on your goodness. Can you procure the showy floating water plant with comparatively large white flowers of your northern rivers? Mr Kirk sent me a flower many years ago, but no leaves. He must have got it from some settler.

With regardful remembrance

Ferd von Mueller.

I have the real now also from Australia; so you may have it there as well,

New Zealand.

though you seem to have also.