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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 82.11.04a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-11-04 [82.11.04a]. 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/1880-9/1882/82-11-04a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

4/11/82.
I have at once attended to your interesting rhamnaceous novelty, so that you, dear Professor, may have the manuscript in time yet for the vol. of 1882.
1
See R. Tate to M, 31 October 1882. M and Tate described Trymalium wayae in B82.14.02, corrected to T. wayii in a Corrigendum in Transactions and proceedings and report of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol 3 (1883), p. 109.
After the discovery of T. Daltoni in Victoria, we cannot regard the occurrence of an other spec. in S.A. so remarkable. Trymalium can be placed in the genus
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, as indicated by me in the journ. of the R.S. of N.S.W. XV, 209.
2
B82.07.05, p. 209.
It will be more classic to write spatulifolium than spathulif. or even spatulaef.
3
M subsequently had second thoughts about what name to give the new plant; see M to R. Tate, 9 November 1882, and M to R. Tate, 16 November 1882.
In 1850 or 1851 I gave in the German Newspaper of Adelaide a "sketch of the vegetation of the Onkaparinga-valley" which little literary effort found its way into several home journals then.
4
The publication to which M refers has not been found; no copies of either the Adelaide deutsche Zeitung or the Südaustralische Zeitung from this period survive in Australian libraries. The new plant had been found by Tate in the gorge of the Onkaparinga River, SA.
With best regards
Ferd von Mueller
Proofsheets not yet here.
Note on Stringybark interesting
5
See R. Tate to M, 31 October 1882.