The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 9./1./80. ¶ ¶ The W.A. plant, just sent by you, dear Mr Ramsay, is Anigosanthus ¶ flavida of Redouté. I cultivated it since 1857. I never heard of the intended New Guinea Expedition. Who is the Mr W...

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Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 80.01.09

Plant names

Anigosanthus flavida
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1880-01-09. 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/1880-9/1880/80-01-09-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

9./1./80.

The W.A. plant, just sent by you, dear Mr Ramsay, is Anigosanthus

Aginozanthos?

flavida of Redouté. I cultivated it since 1857. I never heard of the intended New Guinea Expedition. Who is the Mr White, to whom you refer?

Possibly the ornithologist Samuel White, who in 1880 sailed up the east Australian coast and through Torres Strait into the Arafura Sea on a collecting expedition.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Best salutation & felicitation to new decennium. Have you nothing new of plants from the North?

In the event of my preferring to go to north-east Australia, which months would you advise as the most salubrious or least dangerous. I suppose the cool season would be the time.

This paragraph is on a separate sheet, separated in the file from the rest of the letter by several pages. It may belong to a different letter.