Ferdinand von Mueller

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Am very glad, dear Mr Barbey, that you are supplementing the great work of the never to be forgotten M. Boissier.

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Boissier (1862).

Had he lived I would have sent him my only specimen of the

Euphorbia corynoclada

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, as it would have highly interested him, that being the only large carnulent

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fleshy?

species (of the section Euphorbium) indigenous to Australia. Do you care to interchange occasionally a few hundred dried plant with me, Mr Tate's parcel-office affords for this here now cheap facilities.

Would it be worthy of your consideration, to elaborate a statistic of the Flora Orientalis for easy glance over the distribution as I have done in my Census of Australian plants? I am endeavouring, to get Regel or Maximowicz to do something similar for the Russian Flora, — and Hance for the Chinese Flora. Such tabulated indices would facilitate phytogeographic studies very much, not only at home, but also abroad, not only locally but also universally!