Richmond1
Oct 23rd 1876
My dear Doctor,
I forward by this mail another copy of my lecture.2
Do you wish me to notice the second part of the School Flora, or to wait for the completion of the volume?3 We have very few of the plants near Richmond, but many of them occur at the Kurrajong.
I send you the flower of Passiflora cinnaberina4 from the Kurrajong. The berry differs from the others in being obtusely 3 angled.
The Limosella here has uniformly leaves similar to that enclosed I send you from the Namoi
Danthonia pallida,
Owenia acidula
Lotus australis
Polygonum Cunninghami
Will you kindly tell me if you can from the enclosed imperfect specimen whether the Poa is P. pratensis, or a native Poa.
Yours very sincerely
W. Woolls
Danthonia pallida
Limosella
Lotus australis
Owenia acidula
Passiflora cinnaberina
Poa pratensis
Polygonum Cunninghami
NSW.
Woolls (1876).
M's proposed School Flora was aborted by the Chief Secretary; see Lucas et. al. (2009), pp. 37-9, and notes to M to J. MacPherson, 21 March 1876. M had evidently been sending sections to Woolls as they were printed, as he had been doing to Joseph Hooker at Kew, for Woolls had anonymously published a review of the work 'now being printed' (Sydney morning herald, 15 September 1876, p. 5).
Passiflora cinnabarina?
MS found with a specimen of Owenia acidula (MEL 118889), collected by Woolls at Kurrajong, NSW.
Please cite as “FVM-76-10-23,” 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