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Physical location:

Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 90.06.22

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1890-06-22. 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/1890-6/1890/90-06-22-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

22/6/90
Let me say, dear Prof. Tate, that your goodeniac. plant N. 1 from Cox's peninsula
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NT. Goodeniaceae.
is
Calogyne purpurea

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in a larger state, than that, from which the species became originally established. You may have ascertained this already yourself; but as I am just describing some few novelties from Holtze's later collections, I found this now out, he having sent a still more divergent form.
I shall on this occasion attend to some few more of your plants from Arnhem's Land.
2
NT.
Of the
Helipterum Fitzgibboni

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I have sent a diagnosis with some other descriptions to the "Vict. Naturalist", as the dedication was to a Vict. Gentleman long ago.
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B90.07.02. The plant was named in honour of the long-serving Town Clerk of Melbourne, E. G. FitzGibbon. The description was repeated in B90.12.02.
I have however already used, from the msc., sent to you, the dedicatory words, so that the whole rest of the notes on that Helipterum would remain original as a suppl. for our essay.
I hope, you were pleased with the lithograms of the
Babbagia

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s.
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In B90.13.14, Decade 3.
Did you give up the
Kochia pentatropis

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?
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller
I wrote before that the Potamogeton was not P. natans, but that in the absense of fruit it could not be named.
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M to R. Tate, 26 April 1890.
The incessent interruptions here bring me sometimes as a phytographer almost to despair! Have you any good specimens of
Blyxa

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from S. Australia?
The Good.
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Goodeniacaea.
from Pine-Creek
7
NT.
is also a Calogyne, it may be an other variety