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89.11.00g

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Atkinson, 1889-11 [89.11.00g]. 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/1880-9/1889/89-11-00g-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Notes of a short trip to the West Straits Islands', The colonist (Launceston, Tas), 18 January 1890, p. an account of an excursion, 13-22 November 1889, by E. D. Atkinson to a group of islands off the NW coast of Tasmania. The letter is dated to November 1889 as the earliest that it could have been sent. E. D. Atkinson identified as Edward Derwent Atkinson by reference to Gibbney & A. Smith (1987), Government Gazettes and death notices. (The identification as Edwin Dresser Atkinson in George (2009) is in error.)
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The 'topmost pinnacle' of 'The Humocks' island, climbed on 21 November. J. H. Willis has annotated the label of a specimen of another species collected on this trip (Pterostylis melagramma MEL 1561222) to read: 'E. Hunter's Island = Three Hummock Island'.
I observed some plants new to me, specimens of which I sent to Baron von Mueller, who has kindly given me the names as follows : —
Styphelia canceolata

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Typesetter's error for Styphelia lanceolata?
Smith; Pimelia
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Typesetter's error for Pimelea?
legustorina, Labill, Phyllanthus,
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Punctuation as in source.
Gunnii, Hooker, and a trifoliolate variety of
Boronia polygalifolia

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— all rather rare.]