The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 2/5/88 ¶ ¶ I feel sure, dear Mr Deane, that yet other species of Potamogeton can be found in N.S.W., for instance: P. pectinatus in brackish ground. ¶ ¶ Small dried portions with flowers and partic...

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Physical location:

No. 587, folder 30, series 4, MS 610 Deane family papers, National Library of Australia, Canberra. 88.05.02

Plant names

Eriostemon phylicoides
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Potamogeton pectinatus
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Deane, 1888-05-02. 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/1880-9/1888/88-05-02-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

2/5/88

I feel sure, dear Mr Deane, that yet other species of Potamogeton can be found in N.S.W., for instance: P. pectinatus in brackish ground. Small dried portions with flowers and particularly with ripe fruit would quite suffice for examination.

Oceanic Monocotyledoneae seem to have never yet been methodically searched for anywhere on your coast, not even by R Brown, who was overwhelmed by the then novel objects at his time.

i.e. when Robert Brown (1773-1858) was in Australia, 1801-05.

Should you ever meet a fruiting plant of , would you kindly send a sprig?

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller