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 Rh = G. chrysodendron, R. Br.; Hakea Mitchellii, Meissn. = ? Persoonia Mitchellii, Meissn.; Plantago Mitchelli, Dene = Euphorbia Mitchelliana, Boiss.; Phyllanthus Mitchelli, Benth Primelea Mitchelli, Meissn. = P. collina, R. Br.; Pterostylis Mitchelli, Sond. = Bertya Mitchelli, Muell. Arg.; Iseilema Mitchelli, Anders. = Anthistiria membranacea, LindL; Neurachne Mitchelliana, Nees; Panicum Mitchelli, Benth.; Triodia Mitchelli, Benth.

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 Hepaticæ for Hooker's Flora Tasmaniæ, 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, Germany, 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 Government Botanist of Victoria. His official life was synchronous with a renewed development of botanical science in Australia. He assisted Bentham in the preparation of the Flora Australiensis. He wrote the "Eucalyptographia," "Iconography of Australian species of Acacia," the "Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ," the "Census