[…]1 Plagianthus pulcellus2 A Gray Forgive this rambling letter and believe me your much
obliged
F M Bailey
PS Thanks for the name of the native grass it is not to be found in any of my books The grass is worth recommending I posted all the good seeds I could collect, to you the other day. A person brought me up from the bay3 the other day what I take to be Robt Browns Poa interrupta4 I'll enclose a specimen You dont seem to have noticed it in the Fragmenta so perhaps I am wrong
F. M. B.
Plagianthus pulcellus
Poa interrupta
An unknown amount of text missing.
P. pulchellus?
Moreton Bay, Qld?
R. Brown (1810), 180.
There are three Bailey specimens of Eragrostis elongata (the modern synonym of Poa interrupta) at MEL, all from Brisbane. The two with dates are given as March 1873, but that is inconsistent with Bailey's reference to M's Fragmenta where M's major treatment of the grasses is in B73.11.03 and B73.12.01; thus the earliest plausible date for this letter fragment is 1874 and it is dated accordingly.
Please cite as “FVM-74-00-00d,” 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