The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [...] ¶ case for safe [examination] at your swamps. ¶ ¶ If you can without trouble pick some few seeds of Goodenia humilis, I shall be obliged. The Mylitta is likely coming here (S. Yarra) to morrow...

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Physical location:

Box 1591/15, Williamson Papers, La Trobe Australian manuscript collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 93.12.00

Plant names

Agaricus
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Goodenia humilis
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Mylitta
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Polyporus
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson, 1893-12. 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/1890-6/1893/93-12-00-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Fragment dated to December 1893 since the subject-matter is evidently closely connected with that of M to H. Williamson, 19 December 1893 (in this edition as 93-12-19a). The top half of the page has been cut off, and elements of a following line show that text is also missing on the verso. See also M to H. Williamson, December 1893 (in this edition as 93-12-00f).

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case for safe [examination] at your swamps.

If you can without trouble pick some few seeds of , I shall be obliged. The is likely coming here (S. Yarra) to morrow. I am greatly beholden to you for this valuable donation; the white is not large, which grows from it, still conspicuous and remarkable to any one. What you say about the growing out of a vulnerated part of the is momentous, but that only one case may have been an exceptional one. The has not a stalk like the ordinary -mushroom, which we eat. If the white specimen on the My[litta] [...]

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