From Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller   19 Oct 1878

[Baron Mueller sent specimens of

large var. of Helichrysum apiculatum

Libertia paniculata Cunningham Gap1

Pittosporum undulatum "

Blechnum nitidum 2 specimens Large form […]2 & small grown on one of my plants B.P.3

Poecilopteris virens T Bay Range4 fertile & sterile forms]

Blechnum nitidum

Helichrysum apiculatum

Libertia paniculata

Pittosporum undulatum

Poecilopteris virens

Qld.

One word illegible.

Bowen Park, the Queensland Acclimatisation Society’s ground in Brisbane.

Trinity Bay Range, near Cairns, Qld? In Bailey (1879a), p. 118 (published October 1878; see Anonymous (1929)), he refers to ‘the beautiful Poecilopteris virens, T. Moore, which I found in one of the deep gullies of the Trinity Bay Range’.

Letter not found; item is a notebook summary only, dated 19 October 1878.

Please cite as “FVM-78-10-19a,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/78-10-19a