Document information

Physical location:

Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 82.01.10

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-01-10. 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/1880-9/1882/82-01-10-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

10/1/81.
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It seems that M mis-dated this letter and that it was actually written in January 1882, the month in which M published his promised descriptions of the new Composites mentioned in the letter. From other letters we know that M was working during December 1881 and January 1882 on specimens received from Kempe; see M to R. Tate, 1 December 1881, and M to R. Tate, 6 January 1882.
Before it escapes from my memory dear Prof Tate, I like to mention, that — if not too late, — the following could be added to the lists of plants found on or near the Finke-River
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NT.
by the Rev. Mr Kempe:
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M had published an earlier list, B80.13.13. Tate (1882) includes M's new species as from Hermannsburg, Finke River.
Helichrysum (Ozothamnus) Kempei n. sp. allied to H. cassinoides.
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H. cassinioides?
Helipterum incanum

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D.C.
Millotia Kempei

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, n. sp.
Helichrysum ambiguum

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Turcz.
The latter is in your list as
Leptorrhynchus ambiguus

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Not in APNI (accessed 23 March 2023).
It is however a Helichrysum of the section of
Chrysocephalum

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as pointed out by me more than 20 years ago, and by no means a Leptorrhynchus. Indeed it is so near to H. semipapposum, that anyone might be apt to take it for a one-headed var. of that plant.
The two new Composites with a few other novelties will receive publicity in Melbourne during this month.
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M described
Helichrysum Kempei

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in B82.01.01, p. 69, and Millotia kempei in B82.01.03, p. 2.
What arrangements has your R.S. for publication, if any other new S.A. plants should need early issue?
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Turczaninows description of the W.A. Helichr. ambiguum was so defective, that I did fail to identify it with my eastern plant; still he quite correctly placed it in Helichrysum, nor is there anything ambiguous about it.