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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 83.09.27

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1883-09-27. 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/1880-9/1883/83-09-27-final.odt>, accessed May 7, 2026

27/9/83.
After closing my letter of yesterday,
1
M wrote twice to Tate on the day before this letter: see M to R. Tate, 26 September 1883 (in this edition as 83-09-26 and 83-09-26b).
dear Prof. Tate, I received yours of the 22. inst.
2
Letter not found.
Your Sisymbrium procumbens is very interesting, and seems well marked.
3
Tate described Sisymbrium procumbens in Tate (1885), p. 67 .
The white and also in other individuals yellow color of the petals occurs also in the arctic , and as shown already by Linnaeus likewise in . I have published a note on this subject, but do not just remember where. Thus I remarked, that is only a var. of C. cochlearina, and that sometimes occurs with yellow petals
4
See B81.13.14, p. 137.
. Your adding to these bicolored species also & is very interesting.
5
Tate (1883b), p. 101, reports yellow-flowered . A published reference by Tate to alternate-coloured has not been found; M was probably commenting on specimens. Flora of Australia (accessed 24 September 2020) under Cuphonotus humistratus describes the petals as white to yellow.
With best regards your
Ferd. von Mueller.