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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1887-09 [87.09.00e]. 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/1880-9/1887/87-09-00e-final.odt>, accessed May 7, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Notes and exhibits', an account of items discussed at the meeting of the Linnean Society of NSW, 28 September 1887, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of News South Wales, New series, vol. 2, p 621.
[Mr. Fletcher
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Director and Librarian.
exhibited for Baron von Mueller, F.R.S., &c., a drawing of an aquatic plant,
Aldrovanda vesiculosa

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, Linn., and in reference to it stated that the Baron wished to call the attention of the members of this Society to the desirability of keeping a look-out for this plant, which the late Mr. P. O'Shanesy, F.L.S., found some years ago in a lagoon near Rockhampton, and which my
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may?
be looked for in N.S.W. among water-plants such as
Utricularia flexuosa

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. Though rendered known as a South European plant so long ago as 1747, the fruit of
Aldrovanda vesiculosa

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is still unknown. The Baron would also be glad if members would try to discover the fruits of the native species of
Lemna

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.
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See M to the Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria, February 1888 (in this edition as 88-02-00).
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