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96.05.00d

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-05 [96.05.00d]. 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/1890-6/1896/96-05-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Answers to correspondents', Leader, 30 May 1896, p. 5.
[ Plant Specimen .— Anxious, Wahring.
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Vic.
— Your specimen is a , or belongs to a closely allied genus, but is very different from the Deadly Nightshade. "Anxious" should have forwarded a more complete specimen. Professor Dunal, so far back as 1852,
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Dunal (1852).
distinguished about 900 distinct species, and many have been added since. In Australia, Baron von Mueller informs us, 53 well marked species are known; hence the difficulty to name one from insufficient material.]