Document information

Physical location:

Cat. no. 860.5, Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum, Castlemaine, Victoria. 94.00.00

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Anna Brotherton, 1894. 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/1890-6/1894/94-00-00-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

1
Correspondent inferred; MS acquired by the Castlemaine Art Gallery & Museum as part of a collection of Brotherton correspondence.
Brotherton did not use a single sequence of collecting numbers. However, taking account of modern synonyms, the 17 numbered specimens that can be linked to surviving specimens are all dated 1894, and the list is dated accordingly. None of her collecting numbers 7, 15, 9, 24, 30, 16, 23, 14, 29 are represented by surviving specimens at MEL. The list may be the one referred to in M to A. Brotherton, 21 October 1894.
7,
, Labill.
26,
, Cassini.
10,
, RBrown
5,
, Sieber
11,
, Smith
(a very variable plant as hitherto understood)
15,
, Labillard.
28,
, Thunberg
6,
, Lindley.
2,
(Fruit unripe)
9,
Of this I would like to see ripe fruit later in the season
27,
, Solander.
24,
, Haworth
21,
, J. Hooker
Number obliterated, Backhouse
With this often the hairy flowered D. peltata, Smith
4,
, RBrown
Could later in the season well ripened seeds of any of the Droseras be obtained
1,
Lindley.
30,
RBr
16,
The "Buttercup" without number =
, Smith
23,
, RBrown
8,
, Smith.
14,
Caladenia Patersoni, RBrown var filamentosa.
2
The variety name has not been found (APNI, accessed 28 November 2021).
13,
RBrown
12,
,
3
Glycine Latrobeana, the name M uses in B89.05.03?
Bentham
31,
, F.vM.
18,
, De Candolle & 3
29,
, RBrown
(A variety, not the typic form)
9 & 2,
4
There is evidently a duplication of numbers here; earlier in the list, nos 2 and 9 were identified as belonging to other genera.
Cunningham.
(Both belong to one species, unless the ripe fruit should show differences)
20,
Drosera
Not yet in flower
25
, Linné
(Immigrated)