Richmond1
May 10 /79
My dear Baron,
Knowing how anxious you are about the fate of poor Leichhardt, I send you the accompanying letter.2
I also enclose two pinnules of Aspidium decompositum from the Blue Mountains. The ordinary form (which I believe is identical with the Norfolk Island Nephrodium calanthum) seems to be without any indusium. I do not recollect ever having seen one on it. Now is the other (which resembles the Norfolk Island N. microsorum, & A. tenerum from the north) a variety of A. decompositum or Brown's3 N. tenerum? Mr Bentham does not give Port Jackson as the habitat, but I believe Brown had both forms from this part
Yours very sincerely
W. Woolls
Thanks for seeds of Bamboo
Aspidium decompositum
Aspidium tenerum
Nephrodium calanthum
Nephrodium microsorum
Nephrodium tenerum
Please cite as “FVM-79-05-10,” 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