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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 80.00.00d

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1880 [80.00.00d]. 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/1880-9/1880/80-00-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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A cover sheet with this list has been marked: 'Fowler's Bay [SA] List of Plants F.M.'. The species mentioned are included in 'Plants collected by Mrs. Richards, Corr. Memb., at Fowler's Bay', Transactions and proceedings and report of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 3, pp. 171-2, (1880), an unsigned component of 'Miscellaneous Contributions to the Natural History of South Australia'. The text contains some quotations from letters from M, probably to Ralph Tate. The report of notes and exhibits at the meeting of 4 May (p. xxviii) refers to the list of plants collected by Mrs Richards, and the letter is dated to 1880 on that basis.
Mrs Richards collect.
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Anne (Annie) F. Richards.
4.
Plagianthus glomeratus

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Benth
2.
Loranthus pendulus, Sieber var Melaleucae.
18.
Angianthus

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5.
Thysanotus Baueri

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, R Br. & 16
19.
Sporobolus Virginicus

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, Kunth
11, a
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Acacia homalophylla

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, Cunningham
also 10
1.
Cassytha melantha

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R Br.
21.
Stipa

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5
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sic - this number appears twice.
Grevillea Huegelii

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, Meissner.
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Scaevola spinescens

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, R Br & 9
12.
Eremophila crassifolia

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, F.vM.
a small leaved variety
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Pholidia

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has no generic claim.)
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MS annotation: '? sp. previously named'.
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Solanum hystrix

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RBr !
I never saw this rare plant before, as it has only once found,
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been omitted?
i.e. in 1802 at Petrel Bay by RBr.
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Petrel Cove, SA? R. Brown (1810), p. 446. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, p. 458, noted that Brown's herbarium contained only a single specimen, without flowers, of this species.
Could Mrs Richards give us particulars about locality and procure more specimens, as well in flower as in fruit? What is the color of the fresh flower
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MS annotation: 'blue'.
and of the ripe berry?
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Myoporum parvifolium

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17.
Perhaps Chenopodium microphyllum

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FvM.
(imperfect specimen)
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Frankenia laevis

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20.
Dianella revoluta

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Nos 4, 5, 19, 5, 12, 14, 13, 19, 20 have been marked with a tick. No. 11 has been ticked and cross hatched to become a cross.