Richmond1
Oct 14 /79
My dear Baron,
I had the pleasure to receive the 3rd Decade yesterday.2 I must wait a week or ten days before I review it, as Mr. Fairfax has now an article of mine in reference to your plates.3
Since I wrote to you, I have recd a specimen of "Box" from Wellington (not far from the Macquarie where Cunningham procured his specimens of E. albens) & I send it to you by this post, because I am under the impression you are right in supposing the true E. albens to be the inland variety of E. hemiphloia!4 The bark from all accounts is similar, & the principal difference is the glaucous, or almost powdery appearance of the leaves.
My Mudgee5 friend sent me from the ranges beyond Wallerawang a specimen of a stunted tree, which is certainly a small form of E. dealbata or the Peppermint.6
NSW.
B79.13.11.
Unsigned article, 'Eucalyptus', Sydney morning herald, 15 October 1879, p. 5. The review, also unsigned, was published in Sydney morning herald, 10 November 1879, p. 7.
See M's discussion in Eucalyptographia, Decade 5.
NSW; friend not identified.
MS ends at bottom of page, without valediction or signature; the letter may have continued on another page, now missing.
MS found with a specimen of Eucalyptus albens var. elongata (MEL 73270) from Wellington, near Macquarie River, NSW. MS annotation by M: 'Oceanic Monocot'. Though the MS lacks a signature, it is in Woolls's hand, he lived in Richmond, and the reviews referred to are typical of those that he wrote.
Please cite as “FVM-79-10-14,” 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