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Physical location:

Box 1791/15, Williamson papers, La Trobe Australian Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 96.00.00b

Plant names

Aster myrsinoides var erobescens
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Cladonia retipora
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Haloragis micrantha
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson, 1896 [96.00.00b]. 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/1890-6/1896/96-00-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Williamson specimens of the named species are in MEL, collected in 1896 but without a month given, the last two under synonyms (AVH, accessed 25 June 2022). The fragment is dated accordingly. The specimen with number 444 now in MEL is said to have been collected on 14 September 1897 and if so cannot be the one M saw.

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help to discriminate the plant systematically. What is the precise locality?

444. Also in this difficult genus the fruit, when containing well ripened seeds, give some of the best characteristics

465 Floerke.

433, Aster myrsinoides var. erobescens

erubescens?

418.

In Williamson's note on what appears to be the specimen involved (MEL 0535670), the collection number that M has read as 418 is not at all clear. In the digitized record, it has been read as 438 but it could equally well be read as 408. There is no other Williamson specimen from this period bearing any of these numbers.

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