Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS 2009/21, item 27, Linnean Society of NSW, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 89.02.03

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Musson, 1889-02-03. 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/1880-9/1889/89-02-03-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

3/2/89.
A few of the duplicates I kept, dear Mr Musson, for the sake of record of locality under your honored name. Also a few I kept back for dissection and critical comparison, for which purpose I have no leisure at present. Let me urge on you to collect of every plant fruiting specimens in autumn. The bible-word "you shall know them by their fruit" is very applicable also in these instances. If the lagoons were regularly raked for water plants and so the River bends there, you might discover many rare plants. Thus the
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is almost sure to exist in NSW but has as yet been found only at two places in Queensland. Have you friends at the QL. boundary line and in Central Australia, who could be induced to dry all sorts of plants for tracing the geographic distibrution of many of the species still further
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd von Mueller
Among minute plants will be most novelty
saltbushes should also not be passed
Fruit -bearing specimens are at all times as valuable as flowering sprigs, and often more so .
Saltbushes from there would be particularly valuable if in fruit. In early spring the minute annuals should also have full attention.
Is the medicago orbicularis there now truly naturalized The seeds came from me