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Physical location:

Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 84.05.10

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1884-05-10. 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/1880-9/1884/84-05-10-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

10/5/84
Your remarks on
Scirpus litoralis

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, dear Prof. Tate,
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See R. Tate to M, 6 May 1884.
are interesting. The species seems much to replace Sc. lacustris in warmer regions of the world. I was the first to identify it with Sc. plumosus.
Let me hope that you got all right the 9th Euc. Decade
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B83.13.07.
and the suppl for 1883 of the Census.
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B84.13.16.
Perhaps I did not mention to you yet, that I have added
Acacia erinacea

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to the S.A. Flora from near Eucla, also
Haloragis digyna

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from the same locality.
You have such an extensive insight now into the vegetation of the S.A. territory, that really you do not need any help from me, unless for occasional critical species and perhaps the Arnhem's Land
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NT.
plants. So I hope, you will push your researches in phytography on now independently, particularly as I am still a sufferer and continue very weak, so that working very long hours daily would exhaust the little strenght[s] which I have regained. Nevertheless I hope to furnish a contribution to your R.S.'s tr.
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Royal Society's transactions. No contribution by M was published by the Royal Society of SA in 1884 or 1885.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller