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Ferdinand von Mueller to Montague Rupp, 1895-02-01. 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/95-02-01>, accessed September 11, 2025

1/2/95
Only some few hurried lines, dear Mr Rupp, to thank you for your kind letter and for recognizing the information which it contains. Of
Geijera

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and other such other Lachlan-Plants as are not common at Melbourne, I shall be thankful.
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Rupp spent from November 1894 to February 1895 at Hay, NSW, from where he sent plants to M for identification.
The Orchids, which at the cool season would likely occur there, should be
Microtis porrifolia

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and
Lyperanthus nigricans

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I have just sent Mrs Linton and her children the second Census of Australian Plants.
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B89.13.12. It is probable that 'Mrs Linton' was the widow of Bishop Sydney Linton (died May 1894), who was present in Hay at the end of February when she auctioned her chattels and received a presentation before her departure for England (Riverine grazier, 22 February 1895, p. 2) and whom Rupp farewelled when she departed Melbourne for England on 2 March (Riverine grazier, 5 March 1895, p. 2).
It must be a different Goodenia, not G. humilis, which you found there, the latter belonging to the [com]plex of Tasmanian vegetation.
Ask Mrs Linton children kindly, to gather particularly even the minutest land-plants, and all sorts of true Waterplants (not riparian) The Bulb must be
Calostemma luteum

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.
If Mrs Lintons family make a methodic collection there, a list of the "plants of Hay" could be published as a contribution to geographic phytology
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller