RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN BOTANISTS. Ui 
= G. chrysodendron, R. Br.; Hakea Mitchell, Meissn. = 1; 
Persoonia Mitchellii, Meissn.; Plantago Mitchelli, Decne 1 
Euphorbia Mitchelliana, Boiss.; Phyllanthus Mitchell, Benth.; 
Primelea Mitchelli, Meissn. = P. collina, R. Br.; Pterostylis 
Mitchelli, Sond. = Bertya Mitchelli, Muell. Arg.; Jsevlema 
Mitchelli, Anders. = Anthistiria membranacea, Lindl.; Neurachne 
Mitchelliana, Nees; Panicum Mitchellt, Benth.; Z'riodia Mitchelli, 
Benth. 
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Mitten, William (1819-1906). Born at Hurstpierpoint, 
Sussex, 30th November, 1819 ; died at the same place, 27th 
July, 1906. An eminent bryologist. He described the 
Hepatice for Hooker’s Flora Tasmanice, and was an 
authority on Australian hepatics and mosses for many years. 
Some Australian mosses were enumerated by him in Trans. 
R. S. Vict., xix., 49. See also ‘‘ Record of new localities 
of Polynesian Mosses, with descriptions of some hitherto 
undefined species.’’ (Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., vii., 98.) 
Mueller, Ferdinand (1825—1896). Born Rostock, Ger- 
many, 30th June, 1825; died at Melbourne 10th October, 
1896. Arrived in Adelaide, 1847, and went to Melbourne 
in 1852 to fill the newly-created post of Government 
Botanist of Victoria. He began his Victorian botanical 
explorations in 1853, and in 1856 explored north-western 
and northern Australia under the leadership of A. C. 
Gregory, returning with a rich harvest of new plants. In 
1857 the Directorship of the Botanic Gardens at Melbourne 
was conjoined to his office of Government Botanist, and 
separated from it in 1873. He died in harness, as Govern- 
ment Botanist of Victoria. His official life was synchro- 
nous with a renewed development of botanical science in 
Australia. He assisted Bentham in the preparation of 
the Flora Australiensis. He wrote the ‘* Hucalypto- 
graphia,”’ ‘‘ Iconography of Australian species of Acacia,”’’ 
the ‘* Fragmenta phytographize Australize,’’ the ‘‘Oensus - 
