The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 1/3/83. ¶ ¶ After the mail-work, dear Prof. Tate, I commenced this afternoon at once the examination of your plants ¶ and finished off so far as to anounce the addition of three plants to the S.A. F...

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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 83.03.01

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Hydrocotyle tripartita
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Myoporum humile
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Nablonium
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Patersonia glauca
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Potamogeton natans
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Sporobolus Virginianus
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1883-03-01. 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/1880-9/1883/83-03-01-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

1/3/83.

After the mail-work, dear Prof. Tate, I commenced this afternoon at once the examination of your plants

The specimens examined were evidently plants from Kangaroo Island, SA, as the corrected names given in the letter are those that appear in Tate (1883).

and finished off so far as to anounce the addition of three plants to the S.A. Flora, namely , and a new species of , to which I shall give your honored name To morrow I will write carefully a diagnosis and forward it to you, so that you can introduce your essay by a new plant.

No publication of tatei has been found (APNI, accessed 29 March 2023). It is probably Achnophora tatei collected by Tate on Kangaroo Island, described in B83.12.03, p. 33, in the part of the paper read to the Royal Society of SA on 3 April 1883. Tate had recognised that it was a new species and thought that it had some resemblance to a Brachycome (see labels with MEL 7175586). In his description, M mentioned that it was 'in appearance like the smaller species of Brachycome' and explicitly distinguished it from .

The Grevillea may be a form of G. parviflora, but without flowers that remains doubtful. The Hydrocotyle = H. tripartita; the supposed = ; the Myoporum is the typical M. parvifolium and may be distinct from M. humile; — the Patersonia = P. glauca;

The first five determinations are each ticked in the margin.

— the restoid looking pl. = ; — = S. inundatus; — = S. nitens;

This name is marked with a tick above it.

— the annual grass = ; — the = ;

S. virginicus?

— the Potamogeton may be distinct from P. natans, but it is not in fruit.

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller

Have you an other specimen of the Tatei to spare?