Richmond N.S.W
March 1st 1880
My dear Baron.
The Aspidium decompositum, on which I have never seen an indusium It has a soft villous appearance in the frond and stem1 (No. 1.) has a creeping rhizome & is scaly about the base. This is the common form from Sydney to the Blue Mountains.
No. 2. has not a creeping rhizome, & I fancy that it is allied to no. 3 from the Clarence & No. 4. from the Macleay.2
No. 5 is what I take to be A. tenerum — from the Blue Mountains, &, perhaps, 3, 4 & 5 may all be referred to the same species, as well as the Norfolk Island N.3 microsorum.
N. calanthum is like No. 1.
Sir W. Macarthur is now beyond correspondence. His memory fails him. Should you have any particular business to communicate, it would be better to write to Capt Onslow M.P. Camden Park4 (his niece's husband)
I hope you will get the bottles. They were sent by the A.S.N.'s5 boat
Yours faithfully
W. Woolls
P.S. The fruit of Gymnostachy6 is dark blue.
Aspidium decompositum
Aspidium tenerum
Gymnostachy
Nephrodium calanthum
Nephrodium microsorum
It has a soft … and stem is a note on the MS with its intended insertion point marked with an asterisk.
Clarence River and Macleay River, NSW.
Nephrodium.
NSW.
Australasian Steam Navigation Company. No mention of 'bottles' has not been found in the correspondence between Woolls and M.
Gymnostachys?
MS found with a specimen of Lastreopsis acuminata (MEL 2155106). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 5/3/80'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-80-03-01a,” 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