The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne, 11th October 1878 ¶ Professor Dr Decaisne ¶ Honored and dear Sir ¶ ¶ This is dictated to you from my sick bed, but I did not like the mail to pass without asking from you a favor. I am anx...

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Lepidosperma squamatum
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Senecio platylepis
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Stipa crinita
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Decaisne, 1878-10-11 [78.10.11b]. 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/1870-9/1878/78-10-11b-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

MS written by G. Luehmann and signed by M.

Melbourne, 11th October 1878

Professor Dr Decaisne

Honored and dear Sir

This is dictated to you from my sick bed, but I did not like the mail to pass without asking from you a favor. I am anxious to ascertain the precise species of Stipa named by Gaudichaud . Would you be so very friendly as to let me have a few fragments of the original specimen from Shark Bay? In the same manner I would like to clear up the doubts concerning of La Billardière,

See also M to J. Decaisne, 20 March 1879.

if you can spare me a spikelet and portion of leaf from La Billardières typical specimens in your museum.

Enclosed I offer a few seeds of , the species was recorded only from one single locality, but in a recent journey I found it millionfold between the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan river.

NSW. M had returned to Melbourne from this journay on 1 October 1878.

With regardful remembrance

Yours

Ferd. von Mueller.