To Alphonse de Candolle   3 September 1879

3/9/79.

 

By this post, honored Sir, I beg to send you the first two decades of my Monography of the Eucalyptus-species,1 and two more decades will soon follow. On this genus, which prevails over the whole continent of Australia, observations will have yet to be made for many years, though perhaps not much will be added to the species hereafter. I am still much in want of an original specimen of E. pallens & E. obtusiflora of your illustrious parent, so that I may place both correctly in the Atlas.2

Euc. punctata D.C I have restored as a well marked species.3

With regardful remembrance your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Would a copy of the Euc. Atlas be acceptable to the Geneve Société.4

 

Eucalyptus obtusiflora

Eucalyptus pallens

Eucalyptus punctata

 
B79.13.11.
Neither of these species had an article in M's Eucalyptographia devoted to it.
Bentham (1883-78), vol. 3, p. 242 had, based on the description only, treated E. punctata as a variety of E. tereticornis; in the Eucalyptographia entry for E. punctata (B80.13.14, Sixth Decade), M noted that it matched E. stuartina var longifolia of Bentham (p. 244).
Institut national Genevois?

Please cite as “FVM-79-09-03,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/79-09-03