The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 29/5/93. ¶ ¶ If you persevere and so your Lady-friends on the Murray-River, &c dear Miss Henley, you are likely to discover yet the Aldrovanda in Vict. and N.S.W. ¶ ¶ N. 3 = Potamogeton obtusifolius...

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RB MSS M32, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 93.05.29

Plant names

Aldrovanda
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Chara
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Mesembryanthemum edule
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Nitella
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Potamogeton obtusifolius
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Maria Henley, 1893-05-29. 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/1890-6/1893/93-05-29-final.odt>, accessed May 7, 2026

29/5/93.

If you persevere and so your Lady-friends on the Murray-River, &c dear Miss Henley, you are likely to discover yet the in Vict. and N.S.W.

M was actively searching for this genus; see B89.09.01 and letters to several correspondents, for example M to W. Gill, 30 September 1889 (in this edition as 89-09-30a), and M to H. Deane, 15 October 1893.

N. 3 = .

N. 1 =

N 2. =

1 & 2 too small for accurate specific naming.

If you strew some kitchen-salt over the plot, where the grows, it will make better advances as it is a Salt-plant.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.