The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ This most interesting addition to our collections of Tasmanian plants, now ¶ Zieria veronica ¶ , ¶ was already described by me in the transactions of the Phil. Soc. of Victoria i., p. 11, in 1854...

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81.05.09a

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Verbena officinalis
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Zieria veronica
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Augustus Simson, 1881-05-09 [81.05.09a]. 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/1880-9/1881/81-05-09a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from Simson (1882), read 14 June 1881, and is described as: 'Extract from Baron von Mueller's letter of the 9th May, 1881', to which Simson had alluded in his main text, saying that he had 'sent specimens to Dr. Mueller by Mr. Thos Stephens, and received from the Baron the identification given below' (B82.13.11). A specimen of Z. veronicea collected by A. Simson, dated 1880, is at MEL 530510.

This most interesting addition to our collections of Tasmanian plants, now ,

Z. veronicea ?

was already described by me in the transactions of the Phil. Soc. of Victoria i., p. 11, in 1854.

B54.13.06.

This again shows, like the discovery of Verbena officinalis near Launceston, that even the localities near largely inhabited settlements in your main island are not yet exhaustively searched for plants: how much may thus yet turn up if the unsettled places in King's and Flinder's Islands

Islands in Bass Strait.

together with your smaller isles become well searched, not to speak of interior portions of N. W. Tasmania, with its botanically almost unexplored alpine heights.