Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 153.For an edited version of this letter see B56.13.03. The changes in the printed version noted here are those that alter sense, or the spelling of plant and place names. Doubtful transcriptions follow the printed text. Annotations comprising instructions to the printer are not reproduced here. Almost all plant names have been underlined but, as it was not M's usual practice to do so, most of these have been interpreted as editorial markings, and omitted