It is impossible to judge from a small piece of bark what plant may have furnished it. Mr Gill assuredly might have pressed a small branch with flowers or fruits into his notebook, when the precise name of the shrub could have been ascertained I believe it to be got from a species of Pimelea.
F. v. M.
10/10/71
Pimelea
Text is an annotation by M on a letter sent to Barlee by Charles Gill and forwarded by Barlee to M for advice. Gill had written from Murchison, WA, on 7 August 1871, enclosing a specimen of bark from a shrub growing at Shark Bay that he believed could have commercial value as rope.
Please cite as “FVM-71-10-10a,” 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