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85.01.00f

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Horticultural Society, 1885-01 [85.01.00f]. 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/1880-9/1885/85-01-00f-final.odt>, accessed June 10, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from a report of the meeting of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society held on 10 March 1885, Gardeners' chronicle , 14 March 1885, p. 350. It is dated to January as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been reported at this meeting.
[Dr. Masters showed drawings of a double flower of
Dianella coerulea

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, in which the ovules were petaloid — the first instance, it is believed, of a similar malformation occurring in Monocotyledons. The plant is the
Dianella congesta

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of Robert Brown,
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Masters reported in detail on M's specimen in 'Dianella: petalody of the ovules', Gardeners' chronicle, 2 May 1885, p. 576, showing that Dainella congesta was 'merely a malformed variety' of D. coerulea .
and was forwarded by Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller.]