The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 14/5/94 ¶ ¶ Your specimen of the yellow flowered Composite ¶ Crepis ¶ is mislaid, dear Mr Williamson, so that when I wanted to place it before the Field-Naturalists Club this day, I could not find ...

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Physical location:

Box 1791/15, Williamson papers, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 94.05.14

Plant names

Amarantus retroflexus
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Crepis
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson, 1894-05-14. 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/1890-6/1894/94-05-14-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

14/5/94

Your specimen of the yellow flowered Composite is mislaid, dear Mr Williamson, so that when I wanted to place it before the Field-Naturalists Club this day, I could not find it. Would you be so good to send me some few other specimens of this , particularly also some with ripe fruits . Your Amarantus,

More commonly Amaranthus.

also a weed new for Victoria, is undoubtedly A. retroflexus L, but I had some difficulty to identify it in so large a genus, as your specimen was fragmentary only with no well formed leaves on it.

See M to H. Williamson, 29 April 1894.

Would a letter to Mt. Sturgeon secure perhaps fruit of your at this season.

Grampians, Vic. See M to H. Williamson, 31 December 1893.

The bottom of the page, presumably including the valediction, has been cut off.