Richmond1
April 1 /78
My dear Doctor,
Our venerable friend Mr Clarke is better, but I do not think he will be able to take part again in public affairs2
With regard to Sparganium, you may recollect that I forwarded to you Brown's S. angustifolium from Parramatta.3 The Richmond plant seems different, & identical with the figure of S. simplex in Baxter's British Phenogamous Botany Vol. 4. p. 276.4
I should like to see a tracing of E. punctata. It has been considered as a variety of E. tereticornis, but the operculum is always much shorter, the leaves differently veined, & the wood tougher. I am inclined to think that the plant which I have hitherto regarded as E. punctata is your E. Stuartiana
The Wedelia to which I refer is spreading widely in the low lands. It is not any of those I think, described in the Flora5 The leaves are sessile, & the achenes winged. The shape of the leaf is peculiar. Should it be necessary, I will send a better specimen.
Yours very sincerely
W. Woolls
Eucalyptus punctata
Eucalyptus Stuartiana
Eucalyptus tereticornis
Sparganium angustifolium
Sparganium simplex
Wedelia
Please cite as “FVM-78-04-01,” 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