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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-1896, f. 59. 94.06.02a
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Atriplex halimus
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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1894-06-02 [94.06.02a]. 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/1890-6/1894/94-06-02a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
2/6/94
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Imperfectly date-stamped Royal Gardens Kew [ ] JUL. 94.
Am much pleased, dear Dr Dyer, at the announcement that a case of specimens of fungs
comes back, so that for reference here the material is as large as possible. A special
effort must soon be made to send something to Kew of prominent value, but I hardly
like to divert in these depressed times my attention from rural subjects here.
Salve!
Ferd von Mueller
The frosts, to which in the dry interior of Australia the best shrubby species of
Atriplex are exposed, are not severe.
They may however survive perhaps rather hard frosts and spring from the root again.
For testing this we have no ready means in this mostly winterless clime. I should
think, that the shrubby Austral. species of Atriplex will prove to have a similar
constitution than A. Halimus, which seems however to grow naturally not far north
of the mediterranean Sea. Perhaps the Austral[.] species would endure the clime of
the Channel-Islands and so A. Halimus.
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There is a tick in red pencil in the margin, next to The frosts ...
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There is a red pencil mark after A. Halimus.
The first three sentences of the postscript were quoted in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information
(Royal Gardens, Kew), 1896, p. 131.