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RB MSS M49, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 83.06.01a

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John McKibbin to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883-06-01 [83.06.01a]. 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/1880-9/1883/83-06-01a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Pterostylis concinna (MEL 1560824).
Junction Hotel
Drummond
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Vic.
1st June 1883
Yours of the 28th Inst
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Letter not found.
is just to hand Dear Baron and I hasten to have sent to you the only two plants I took up when I found the others,
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See J. McKibbin to M, 26 May 1883 (in this edition as 83-05-26b).
— I may state that a few perches from where I got these the P.
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Pterostylis.
nana was just appearing above ground, in their radial leaves whereas these were nearly all out of flower (being in full flower about the middle of April) — the P. nana does not flower till August late — You will observe the upper sepal differs by having the long thread-like point and from my notes on P. nana I see the column differs considerably — but I hope the two I now send will be sufficiently fresh to enable you to examine them All that I examined casually seemed to have the column appendages quite different from P. nana, but of course I only use an ordinary magnifying glass — & they flowering at a different time caused me first to compare them with my notes on P. nana.
I have the honor to be
Dear Baron
your obt servt
J. N. McKibbin
Baron von Mueller K.C.M.G. &c &c
P.S.
I collected a single plant of P. acuminata when down on the 29th March, in Malvern,
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A Melbourne suburb.
(although in Maryborough
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Vic.
it was not in flower till early in May —)
Eriochilus autumnalis

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was in full flower at the same place
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