The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Meredith ¶ May 20th ¶ Dear Sir — ¶ ¶ When you can find leisure, I have sent a few more plants for you to name ¶ (1)...

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Physical location:

RB MSS M12, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 83.05.20

Plant names

Correa Aemula
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Epacris
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Goodenia
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Grevillea
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Hakea Rostrata
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Proteaceae
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Preferred Citation:

Sidney Johnson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883-05-20. 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/1880-9/1883/83-05-20-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Specimen folder from which MS was extracted not recorded. MS annotation by M: 'Answ 21/5/83'. Letter not found.

Meredith

Vic.

May 20th

Dated to 1883 on the basis of M's annotation.

Dear Sir —

When you can find leisure, I have sent a few more plants for you to name

(1)

(2)

(3) ?

(4)

(5)

(6) ?

(7) ?

No 4 appears to have all the characteristics of except the foliage leaves. I recognize it as belonging to " " as likewise No 7. The beak in the latter is not turned back as in the engraving in "Botanic Teaching",

B77.08.01, p. 53.

otherwise it appears to be the same.

Nos 4, 5 do not properly belong to our district. They were brought to me from Mt Anakie, distant about 17 miles.

Of 5 I can make nothing at all. Under the microscope the flower? appears to be nothing but a mass of star-like white hair.

I have sent a pretty-looking coral-shaped fung I came across yesterday. I have not pressed it.

Many thanks for information about .

See S. Johnson to M, 14 May 1883.

I intend forming a bed for some of the commoner district plants at school, viz — Correas s, &c.

Yours Very Truly

Sidney Johnson