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Physical location:

Box 1791/15, Williamson Papers, La Trobe Australian Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 96.07.05

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson, 1896-07-05. 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/1890-6/1896/96-07-05-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Sunday 5/7/96
As this is a favorable season for moisture, dear Mr Williamson, I would like to ask, whether you could easily procure 100 flowering and 100 fruiting specimens of
Mitrasacme distylis

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and perhaps also of the very rare Leeuwenhookia
1
Leeuvenhookia? See M to H. Williamson, 20 September 1894, n. 1.
Sonderi. In France I have started an international collection of rare plants (in dried specimens),
2
For the proposal to establish the 'publication' of collections of exsiccatae, under the auspices of the International Academy of Botanical Geography (Académie Internationale de Géographie Botanique), see B93.11.02.
and if you could contribute to the sets, for which the Subscribers are there secured these tiny plants, your honored name as the Gatherer would be put on the printed labels. As these little things are so easily dried and gathered, you might even get still more specimens of them, avoiding however the risk of annihilating them in any locality there.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.