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87.03.00d

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Horticultural Society, 1887-03 [87.03.00d]. 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/1880-9/1887/87-03-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 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 26 April 1867, Gardeners' chronicle , 30 April 1867, p. 585. The letter is dated to March as the latest that it could have been sent to have been considered at this meeting of the committee.
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—Mr. McLachlan drew attention to the curious fact that flowers of this Clerodendron were sometimes inhabited by a species of plant bug allied to the Tingis pyri, which is so injurious in France, where it is called " le tigre ". He found remains of pupae at the base of the corolla, and occasionally a perfect insect. The effect of the irritation set up by the insect was, acccording
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to Dr. Masters, to cause hypertrophy to take place, so that the tube becomes much thickened, likewise the filaments and style; while the flower assumes a regular or "pelorian" form instead of being "zygomorphic" as usual. The specimens were received from Baron von Müller, from Melbourne.]