The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 29/4/94. ¶ ¶ The introduced weed N. 7, dear Mr Williamson, is probably the American Amarantus ¶ retroflexus. Your specimen is too fragmentary for exact examination. ¶ Can you send fuller samples? D...

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Physical location:

Box 1791/15, Williamson Papers, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 94.04.29

Plant names

Amarantus retroflexus
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Datura stramonium
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson, 1894-04-29. 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/1890-6/1894/94-04-29-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

29/4/94.

The introduced weed N. 7, dear Mr Williamson, is probably the American Amarantus

More usually Amaranthus.

retroflexus. Your specimen is too fragmentary for exact examination.

See M to H. Williamson, 14 May 1894.

Can you send fuller samples? Do not forget the seaweeds.

See M to H. Williamson, 19 April 1894 (in this edition as 94-04-19b).

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller.

N 1 = L

Could more of N. 2 be obtained?