Melbourne bot. Garden
6./5/66
Honored and dear Sir.
Accept my cordial thanks for your kindness in sending me the fruit specimens of Knightia excelsa, which enable me to draw now the clear limits between this genus and an allied one of North East Australia
I am very much obliged to Mr Buchanan,1 for the trouble he has taken in securing the material.
I have a fair herbarium of N.Z. plants, most useful for critical comparison in the examination of Australian plants. Still it is far from completely representing the species and varieties of the flora of your beautiful islands. I do not know whether Mr Buchanan is forming a state herbarium also of extra-native plants. If so I will gladly contribute towards it & I could thus in interchange enrich also our state collection here.
I am much in want of a case full of seedlings of any Coniferous plant of N.Z for this garden & I would gladly send in return whatever might be needed from my establishment.
The Knightia is also best transferred by seedlings. Our garden here does not possess this elegant tree.
I am, dear & honored Sir, your regardful
Ferd. Mueller F.R.S.
The Hon. Jam. Crawford
&c &c &c
Knightia excelsa
John Buchanan (1819-1898).
Please cite as “FVM-66-05-06,” 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