The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 14/10/87. ¶ ¶ In sending more proof of my poor "Key", ¶ dear Prof. Gray, you will see, that I had some misgivings in retaining the name Geranium Carolinianum, and thought it safer, to return to the ...

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Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 87.10.14

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Geranium Carolinianum
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Geranium pilosum
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Sterculia Mexicana
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1887-10-14. 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/1880-9/1887/87-10-14-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

14/10/87.

In sending more proof of my poor "Key",

B88.11.02.

dear Prof. Gray, you will see, that I had some misgivings in retaining the name , and thought it safer, to return to the original specific appellation of G. pilosum for the widely distributed Australian plant.

See note in B88.11.02, p. 152, under . M had earlier maintained G. carolinianum in his Census (B83.03.04, p. 13).

Here it is never annual, simply perhaps, as we have no severe winter; but the exact position of several allied forms needs to be studied from American material; and altho' such is in my own collection, much through your generosity, and is also in Sonder's largely extant, it would be best, that American local experience ought to be brought to bear on the subject.

Perhaps one of your many disciples would institute researches in this direction.

Ever regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Can you kindly inform me, what is the exact position of the radicle of ?