20/8/76
It may interest you, dear Dr Hooker, that a second species of your genus Adenochilus has been discovered by Mr J Norton, on a cataract in the Blue Mountains of N.S. Wales, very near to A. gracilis. It is beautifully figured by Mr Fitzgerald for the second part of his "Austr. Orchid1
Have you a spare specimen of the N.Z. species, so that I can institute an exact comparison.
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller.
Adenochilus gracilis
Adenochilus nortoni was described and illustrated in R. Fitzgerald (1875-94), vol. 1, part 2 (publ. 1876), plate [2], and discussed by M in B76.04.03, p. 64. In his account, M says that he has not seen a specimen of A. gracilis but has accepted the distinction between the two species on the basis of Fitch's illustration of this.
MS annotation: 'And'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-76-08-20,” 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