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From Ferdinand von Mueller to William Guilfoyle   [Sep 1870]

The Callipteris in nature must be a beautiful plant I have it not in the collection of the conservatory.

What I have here as a solitary striped plant is the N. Zealand Cordyline australis, but not Cordyline (Charlwoodia) stricta, which is the slender plant so common on the Clarence River1 &c. As yet the plant, which is small, has made no offshoot, otherwise you should gladly have it

With kind regards to your father & yourself, your obliged

Ferd. von Mueller

Polypodium Wallichii has the margines of the lobes not toothed.

Callipteris

Charlwoodia stricta

Cordyline australis

Cordyline stricta

Polypodium Wallichii

1

NSW.

2

Fragment dated to early September 1870 on the basis of M to W. Guilfoyle, 15 September 1870, in which M's responds to a request from Guilfoyle for a specimen of 'the striped Cordyline' that had evidently been prompterd by the present letter.

Please cite as “FVM-70-09-00d,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/70-09-00d