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Physical location:
RB MSS M20, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 83.09.22Preferred Citation:
Ralph Tate to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883-09-22. 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/1880-9/1883/83-09-22-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
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Found with a specimen of
Arabidella procumbens
(MEL 767), labelled by Tate 'Sisymbrium procumbens n sp. | Claypan Lake Torrens Plain
nr Termination Hill | R. Tate 2/9/83'. It was described in Tate (1885), p. 67.
ADELAIDE
22/9/83
My Dear Baron
Thanks for the reprint "on the deleterious property of Omalanthus"
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B83.09.02.
Find enclosed a
Sisymbrium
which I cannot attach to any described Australian species. I am unsparing of my time in working out the Lake Torrens
plants; I have a shrubby Lepidium with the small flowers similar to L. phlebopetalum, but
with with
very characteristic pods; it was too large to send with this, but you will receive
it with others in good time.
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SA, to the west of the Flinders Ranges.
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Word repeated at beginning of new line.
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Presumably the specimen of
L. phlebopetalum
(MEL 74058) collected by Tate from 'Lake Torrens Plain near Termination Hill', dated
2 September 1883, that was 'in a folder annotated "Short style form", 14 Apr 2004' (AVH, accessed 9 April 2023).
Yrs very truly
Ralph Tate
P.S. I have gathered
Capsell
a
humistrata
with white flowers at the Nor' West Bend.
Sisymbrium trisectum with yellow flowers Lake Torrens
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River Murray, near Morgan, SA? The location given for this species in Tate (1890) is his region M, the Murray plain.
Capsella humistrata
Lepidium phlebopetalum
Omalanthus
Sisymbrium trisectum