Bot Garden, Melbourne
18/11/67.
Returning from West Australia, dear and venerable Sir, I find the plants you so kindly sent. Amidst endless arrearwork of the department I could on the Sunday afternoon only glance hastily on them, but I will take an early opportunity to write some notes on your collection for the Royal Society of Tasmania.1
Eriostemon Hillebrandi Ferd. Mueller: the locality of the Aspley River2 is new.
You sent two very rare Helichrysa of the section Ozothamnus, also Acacia juniperina (your A. Gunnii) & A vomeriformis (the true A. Gunnii)
N. 20 is Acacia discolor Willd. 19 = A vomeriformis A. Cunningham.
15 = A. diffusa Edw.
1 & 4 & 5 = Baeckea diffusa Sieber
Thryptomene micrantha from Bicheno gives a new locality3
N.2. Aspidium coriaceum Swartz4
Conosperm. taxifolium, Sarcochilus Gunnii Ferd Mueller (Gunnia Australis Lindley) — Dampiera stricta, Mitrasacme distylis Ferd Mueller, Scaevola Hookeri Ferd Mueller, Dendrobium Milligani (also described by me) Zieria cytisoides & several others I shall mention from your new localities. The algae fungi, lichens, mosses &c I will also carefully examine.
Euphorbia Chamaesyce Linne5 is quite new to Tasmania; indeed the genus Euphorbia was not known to be repre[sen]ted6 there. Und[er] what circumstan[nces] does this plant oc[cur] there? & could you kindly supply more specimens? In the northern parts of Victoria it is common.
Let me remain
your very regardful
Ferd. Mueller
Acacia diffusa
Acacia discolor
Acacia Gunnii
Acacia juniperina
Acacia vomeriformis
Aspidium coriaceum
Baeckea diffusa
Conospermum taxifolium
Dampiera stricta
Dendrobium Milligani
Eriostemon Hillebrandi
Euphorbia Chamaesyce
Gunnia Australis
Helichrysum
Mitrasacme distylis
Ozothamnus
Sarcochilus Gunnii
Scaevola Hookeri
Thryptomene micrantha
Zieria cytisoides
See B69.13.03.
i.e. Apsley River, Tas.
Tas. MS marginal annotation by Story: 'is this the Baeckia', 6277 interlined.
MS marginal annotation by Story: 'Is No 2 a Baeckia'.
MS interlined by Story: 'syse scollep leaved, p. 402 Loudn.' Presumably a publication by Loudon, but the explicit reference has not been found.
Paper damaged, here and below.
See also G. Story to M, 29 January 1868.
Please cite as “FVM-67-11-18,” 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