[Gall on Eucalyptus:— Dr. Masters showed a remarkable fusiform gall on a species of Eucalyptus, and which had been sent to him by Baron von Mueller. It was referred to Mr. MacLachlan for report.1]
Eucalyptus
At the meeting of the committee on 25 May,
Mr. MacLachlan reported that the spindle-shaped gall sent by Baron Von Mueller, was probably the work of a cynips, which had perforated the young flower-buds. Some of the galls contained a larva of a dipterous insect, itself attacked by a parasitic hymenopterous insect.
See also a more extended discussion by MacLachlan [signed McLachlan], with figure, of these galls in Gardeners' chronicle, 25 September 1880, p. 404 (fig, p. 405). The article reports that the specimens of Eucalyptus gracilis from Spencers Gulf (SA) had been sent to M by O. Tepper (letter not found).
Letter not found. The text given here is from the report of the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society Scientific Committee held on 11 May 1880 (Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, n.s, vol. 6 [1880], p. lxxii). It is dated to March as the latest likely date that it could have been written to have been discussed at that meeting.
Please cite as “FVM-80-03-00,” 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