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Contents Volume 32, 2014 Muelleria Muelleria Muelleria Plant, Algal and Fungal Taxonomy and Systematics Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra Victoria, Australia www.rbg.vic.gov.au ISSN 0077-1813 Vol 32, 2014 Volume 32, 2014 Volume Contents Volume 32, 2014 Contributed papers Page A new herbaceous species of Pluchea (Asteraceae: Plucheinae) from central Australia ......................................................3 – D.E. Albrecht and A.R. Bean Studies of the distribution and taxonomy of Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia (Xanthorrhoeaceae) in Victoria ..................................................................................................................................................................8 – M.P. Bellette A revision of the Coronidium scorpioides (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) complex ......................................................................16 – N. Walsh Notes on Olearia (Asteraceae: Astereae) in south-east Australia: O. tenuifolia, O. adenophora Myoporum bateae F.Muell. and description of a new species endemic to eastern Victoria ...................................................................................................34 Source: Mueller, F. (1886). – N. Walsh Description and illustrations The weed that was not: Picris hieracioides (Asteraceae) in Australia ..........................................................................................39 of the myoporinous plants – L. Gillbank of Australia. II. Lithograms. Rubus costifolius and R. bergii in the National Herbarium of Victoria .........................................................................................52 John Ferres, Government – A. van de Beek Printer: Melbourne, pl. LIX. Illustration: Robert Graff Hidden treasures: Brazilian plants collected by Prince Maximilian zu Wied held in the National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) ...................................................................................................................................................58 Myoporum bateae was named – C.L. Gallagher and P.L.R. de Moraes for Mary Bate, who collected the type specimens. Mary ‘A taste for botanic science’: Ferdinand Mueller’s female collectors and the history of Australian botany .........................................................................................................................................................................................72 collected over 350 specimens – S. Maroske in total – including fungi, algae and mosses – around Ferdinand Mueller’s female plant collectors: a biographical register........................................................................................92 Mount Dromedary and Tilba – S. Maroske and A. Vaughan Tilba in New South Wales. She was one of at least 225 women Book review throughout Australia who Review of Collecting ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists ...............................................................173 collected botanical specimens – J.R. Thurlow for Ferdinand von Mueller. Muelleria publishes research papers on Southern Hemisphere plant, algal and fungal taxonomy and systematics, MUELLERIA INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS particularly relating to Australia. Acceptable submissions include: taxonomic revisions; phylogenetic and Submission. 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