The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 8/6/90. ¶ ¶ Did you receive within the last week, dear Professor, an unfinished letter, ¶ in which I gave my views on several of Tietken's plants, among them an Eragrostis trichophylla? It is just a...

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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, South Australia. 90.06.08

Plant names

Babbagia
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Eragrostis trichophylla
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Eriocaulon
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Heliotropium
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Helipterum
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1890-06-08. 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/1890-6/1890/90-06-08-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

MS black-edged — M's brother-in-law George Doughty died on 26 March 1890.

8/6/90.

Did you receive within the last week, dear Professor, an unfinished letter,

Letter not found.

in which I gave my views on several of Tietken's plants, among them an ? It is just as well, if really the letter went, that you received this bit of information meanwhile, as I became so overwhelmed with duties in the departments for many days, that I could not turn to the examination of any plants. I now give you an additional note for appending to that of Eragrostis;

There is no note with the entry for Eragrostis diandra, the only Eragrostis listed, in B90.14.03, p. 106.

I also have settled, so far as our present material allowes, the position of the . The artist has brought out the analysis of the too faint in part.

M is probably referring to (one of) plates 37-40 all of which are , published in Iconography of Australian salsolaceous plants (B90.13.14). The artist is Robert Graff.

It will be 1½ days work for him to mend this. I am now at the , and then will do the finally ,

In B90.14.03, p. 95, M and Tate listed eight new species, describing all but graphitinum in 'Descriptions of new species' on pp. 107-9.

when the work, so far as I can see, will come to an end.

Trusting you are now quite well again

Ferd. von Mueller.