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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 82.05.12b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-05-12 [82.05.12b]. 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/1880-9/1882/82-05-12b-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

12/5/82
Just got your letter,
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dear Professor, concerning alterations & addenda to the first sheet of the species-census. An unexpected difficulty has arisen concerning the sending of the sheets out of Victoria for any additions &c, as the printer can barely muster the types for one sheet, and is therefore compelled to print off at once the sheets, so as to liberate his types for the next. I see therefore, that omissions must come with other addenda to be dealt with at the end of the Census in supplemental notes. As it is, it will take til the end of 1883 to finish this census, and probably to do the
Choripetalae

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til the end of this year, they requiring 86 sheets, the second being just only ready.
Yourself, the Rev. Dr Woolls & Mr Bailey & the Rev. B. Scortechini must kindly supply notes for the supplement . I did not deem it necessary to [add]
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editorial addition: word omitted by M.
my name after Hibb Benthami.
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Hibbertia benthami

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. The entry in B83.03.04, p. 1 places H. benthami in synonymy with H. angustifolia, described by Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1 p. 21, although in B64.06.01, p. 116 M had give H. benthami as a synonym of Candollea glomerosa. In the second edition of the Census (B89.12.03, p. 1), M gives the first edition (B83.03.04) as the authority of his assigning the name.
About H. hirsuta I am not altogether sure, as I like to see more specimens, especially some in fruit
Pachygone pubescens

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Tristichocalyx pubescens

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Verbena officinalis

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was not uncommon in the vallies of the Mt Lofty Ranges
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in former years.
Cheiranthera volubilis

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is a var of C. linearis, so far as I can judge from the material at hand, unless there be a difference in the capsule Mr Tepper has just sent a Prasophyllum which I find to be the genuine P. despectans, J. Hooker.
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MS annotation interlined by Tate: 'P. despectans Hooker f. vi. 345'; the reference is to Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, p. 345.
It flowering so early caused likely it to be overlooked.
With regardful
remembrance
Ferd von Mueller