From John Dallachy   November 1868

Herbert River1

November 1868

My Dear Sir,

I was up on Mount Grahame on Saturday and returned to station last night I have inclosed a fragment of a tree Fern — the steam of the tree is from 12 to 14 feet high Clothed with dense Brown hairs at the base of the fronds the steam is rough — about 2 inches in diameter it I suppose is an Alsophila but think that I have not sent it to you before on the tope of the above mountain is covered with the most dense scrub and high trees some of them 150 to 200 feet in hight. I could not get to the highest Point of the mountain on account of the scrub — there are miles of it here and this mountain and scrub no white man has ever been in it but myself — I have got the Bowenia spectabilis in flower for you — it grows in a bundance on the tope in Scrub; I saw a tree of Dailinga2 a hundred feet or more in hight there was no trees in [...]3

[John Dallachy]4

 

Alsophila

Bowenia spectabilis

Dailinga

 
1
Qld.
2
Darlingia?
3
An unknown amount of text missing.
4
editorial addition. MS annotation at head of letter by M: 'Alsophila Woollsii F.v.M.' When M described the species under this name in B74.04.01, p. 179, he attributed its discovery to Dallachy on Mt Graham.

Please cite as “FVM-68-11-00,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/68-11-00