To [George Bentham]1    October 1864

 

Eucryphia Moorei recently found by Mr Moore at Wingecarrebee,2 where it forms a tree 80' high, with stems 2' in diameter, also by Mr W. Woolls at "Sassafras place" 15 miles from Berrima3 consociated to Fieldia, Doryphora, Dicksonia, Schizomeria & Quintinia & Lomaria Patersonii.4

 

Dicksonia

Doryphora

Eucryphia Moorei

Fieldia

Lomaria Patersonii

Quintinia

Schizomeria

1
There is no address, date, salutation or valediction. The note is dated to October 1864 as its earliest possible date. Woolls investigated the botany of the Berrima district at the beginning of October 1864 and saw Eucryphia moorei and the 'consociated species'; see Woolls (1865). M published this information on E. moorei in B64.13.03, p. 176, issued in November 1864.
2
NSW.
3
NSW.
4
Lomaria Patersoni?

Please cite as “FVM-64-10-00b,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/64-10-00b