Document information

Physical location:

Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 82.05.04a

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-05-04 [82.05.04a]. 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/1880-9/1882/82-05-04a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

4/5/82
This day, dear Prof. Tate, I got a small parcel of plants from Mr Oliver, collected near Eucla in S.A. territory. One of the plants is new for your colony, namely of Dunal. It is one of the few plants, which extend from Shark-Bay
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to the great Bight, but penetrating not into the largely peculiar vegetation of W.A, nor mixing with the general desert-flora of the wide inland regions of Australia. If anything additional to your Flora comes to me, I will send it to you, before it comes out of my memory.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.