Ferdinand von Mueller

24/9/16

Copy

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Original letter not found. MS is a copy made by Georgina King.

Dear Miss King,

I feel still very poorly so this letter is again by dictation.

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See M to G. King, 16 September 1896.

The Boronia kindly sent by you from the Hawkesbury River

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NSW.

is the true B. floribunda so your specimens are very valuable and are fixing the locality for certain; you will easily recognise the species in contrast to B. pinnata. I send sketches of the flowers of both

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The sketches, together with M’s letters to King, were shown at the meeting of the Linnean Society of NSW on 28 October 1896; see Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW, vol. 21, 1896, pp. 584-5.

so you will easily understand to discriminate these plants and find out more localities for it, it seems restricted to your region.

I have it already in the second census,

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B89.13.12, p. 18.

but willl bring it before the next meeting of the Linnean Society of N.S.W.

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M's note, B97.05.01, was read at the meeting held on 30 September 1896.

Could you kindly learn from Mr Fletcher its Secretary at Elizabeth Bay when the next meeting will be held. It would be best to bring at once this plant forward instead of waiting to obtain also ripe fruit for which I must look to your kindness hereafter.