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RSA/B.13(19), Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart. 82.08.08

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to James Barnard, 1882-08-08. 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/1880-9/1882/82-08-08-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

1
According to the Royal Society of Tasmania's index of outgoing letters, Barnard wrote to M on 26 July 1882 'With plant recd from Miss Cleary' (of Rostrevor, Spring Bay, Tas), and again on 3 August 1882 'In reply to his note re specn sent 26 July' (RSA/B/1 letter index, Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart). Neither letter has been found, but it is clearly to the second of them that M is here responding.
8/8/82
You were quite right to assume, dear Mr Barnard, that I had overlooked the orchid in the moss. It was an only flower without its leaf and quite shrivelled up, so that I did not notice it, until you called my attention to it pointedly, especially as the flower is dark and got disengaged from the little piece of paper, to which it was glued. As you remarked, it belongs to Corysanthes; and seems not to differ from C. pruinosa, figured as C. fimbriata,
2
Probably referring to plate CVII, B, in J. Hooker (1860), vol. 2.
of which indeed it may only be a variety, though also Lindley (after R. Cunningham) distinguished it as C. Diemenica.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.