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Plant names

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1891-07-05. 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/1890-6/1891/91-07-05-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Sunday, 5/7/91.
You must have deemed me very remiss, dear Prof Tate, that I did not answer your last kind letter earlier;
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See R. Tate to M, 1 July 1891 (in this edition as 91-07-01b), in which M was asked urgently to identify some plants collected by E. C. Stirling for an imminent meeting of the Royal Society of SA.
but I have been passing since May or rather beginning of June the eight edition of the Select plants
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B91.09.10.
through the press, and had to devote much of my time, to work in the Additions, which accrued since the last three years, when the 7th Edition
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B88.12.01.
(in 1800 copies About ⅔ sold from Gov. Print. Office ⅓ given away by Government) appeared. The Nordenskiold's contemplated south-polar Expedition taxed also my time, as I did wish to prevent, that the summer-season of 1892-1893 should be lost.
4
See M to A. Nordenskiöld, 20 April 1891.
I am with the "Select plants" now only to the end of letter Q, so that I looked merely in a hurry on your plants, and may have to keep the naming of some few over for a short while.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
15,
Melaleuca Leucadendron, L.
One of its various forms. I traced it myself 1856 far inland.
13,
Macropteranthes Keckwickii

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M. kekwickii?
FvM.
25,
Dolichandrone heterophylla

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The pretty shining Grass is
Lamarckia aurea

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Cyperus conicus

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6
In B89.12.03, p. 211, M correctly attributes this name to Boeckeler.
I will compare this, so as to make quite sure about the name.
7
Only the first three species named here were included in the list published in Tate (1892).