Document information

Physical location:

GRG 19/391, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide. 88.00.00f

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1888 [88.00.00f]. 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/88-00-00f>, accessed September 10, 2025

1
Undated fragment. Translation of comments is included within the text in square brackets.
Several of the record numbers are not at MEL; the remainder are dated only to the year1888. The specimen numbered 836 at MEL is named as , not , genera in different families; names of the other specimens held at MEL match or are synonyms at least to generic level (AVH accessed 9 August 2021; 31 May 2022). There is no relevant mention in surviving 1888 or 1889 letters to Holtze of species in this list. and it cannot be dated more precisely than to the year.
839
840
, R Br
842
DC
Neu für N. West.
[New for the North-West]
843
844
845
846
Roxb
847
R Br
Dies ist die ächte
2
echte?
Pfl. Eine der andern so benannten mag eine verschiedene Art sein.
[This is the true species. One of the others so called may be a different species.]
848
, Vogel
849.
, R Br
Was ist die Farbe der frischen Blumen?
[What is the colour of the fresh flowers?]
808
, Decaisne
809
, Beauv
810
, Persoon
Frisst das Vieh diese gern? u die purpur blüthige S. Aegyptiaca?
[Do the cattle like to feed on this? And on the purple flowered S. Aegyptiaca?]
885
FvM Frucht erwünscht
[ Fruit desired]
886
R Br
887
, Roxburgh
888
Blüthen u reife Früchte erwünscht
[Flowers and ripe fruits wanted]
889
, Sw
826
D.C
828
829
, R Br
830
831
( )
832
833
Redouté
834
835
R Br
836
837
R Br
838
, Bentham