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Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris. 78.10.11b

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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

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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,
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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.
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NSW. M had returned to Melbourne from this journay on 1 October 1878.
With regardful remembrance
Yours
Ferd. von Mueller.