The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Gladesville ¶ NSW. ¶ ¶ 27th Aug /87 ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I send you under separate cover a small plant which is rather abundant this year in wet places. Strange to say, I have not noticed it before, p...

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RB MSS M96, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 87.08.27

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Henry Deane to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1887-08-27. 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/1880-9/1887/87-08-27-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

MS annotated by M: 'Answ 31/8/87'.

Gladesville

NSW.

27th Aug /87

My dear Sir,

I send you under separate cover a small plant which is rather abundant this year in wet places. Strange to say, I have not noticed it before, perhaps I never found it in flower and took it for something else. It is evidently a Tillaea , but it does not correspond with the description of any of the species in the "Flora". I have found three other species growing about here, namely

T. verticillaris

T. macrantha

& T. recurva

The fourth species T. purpurata I have often looked for but not been able to find. The peculiarity of the plant I send you seems to be its long leaflike sepals.

In your census

B83.03.04, p. 48.

you give two other species as occurring in Western Australia but I have not the Volume of the Fragmenta handy to refer to them.

B81.08.03, pp. 117-8.

In the mean time I forward you specimens.

The present season promises well for wild flowers, but terrible havoc has been committed on the Crown Lands by the so called "Unemployed" — misemployed would be the proper term.

Believe me

Yours very faithfully

H Deane

Baron F von Mueller

Tillaea macrantha

Tillaea purpurata

Tillaea recurva

Tillaea verticillaris