Surveyor General's Office,
Sydney, 12 May 1880.
Dear Baron
I enclose an extract from the Herald of the 8th1 which to overcome Reichenbachs objections I have also sent to the Gardeners Chronicle.2 I also enclose what I take to be a very interesting specimen obtained under the actual falls at Katoomba water fall on the Blue Mountains.3 It is a straggling shrub of about six or seven feet, very like a juniper I could not reconcile it with any of the pines of Tasmania but if it is one of them, it must at least be new to New South Wales I have never seen it before. If you should want them I think I can get specimens of both sexes but I could not see any cones when I found it.
Yours truly
Robt D Fitzgerald
Enclosure not found. The Sydney morning herald ,8 March 1880, published a letter from Fitzgerald under the heading 'New Dendrobiums and Sarcochilus'; see Fitzgerald (1880).
Fitzgerald (1880a), in the Gardeners' chronicle, is a reprint of his letter to the Sydney morning herald.
NSW.
MS found with a specimen of Microstrobus fitzgeraldi (MEL 256548). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 29/5/80'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-80-05-12a,” 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