Consuelo QL.1
Rolleston
Aug 13th 1879
To
Baron von Mueller
Melbourne.
Dear Sir,
You have so kindly answered my previous letters and enquiries, so I trust I may further trouble you.2
I now send you a parasite that grows on brigalow and Currajong, in dence scrubs here, I have never seen it but in the one place, & have showed it to several people but no one knew it. You will see the feelers that act as roots run in the cracks of the bark. And when the round spike like leaves touch another part of the bark or another tree, they turn to roots like what you see. I never saw a flower on it, or fruit
The enclosed moss is very common in the dence scrubs here, and grows from the bottom to the very top and end of every branch on all trees alike.
I have seen no orchids here lately but will send you some about Xmas time and when I find moss in fruit will send it
Thanking you for your kindness, and trusting I am not too much trouble
I am
Yours faithfully
Charles D. Barber
Please cite as “FVM-79-08-13,” 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