From Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller   1 June 1880

[Sent Baron Mueller a specimen of Nepenthes Bernays1 & the red-fruited Solanum with also a diagnosis of the plant, notes on S. humile W. which I consider the procumbent form of S. nigrum and also the diagnosis of Daviesia Wyattiana

June 4 sent also a specimen of Trichomanes yandinense2]

Daviesia Wyattiana

Nepenthes Bernays

Solanum humile

Solanum nigrum

Trichomanes yandinense

Nepenthes bernaysii.

This specimen survives as MEL 19404.

Letter not found; item is a notebook entry only, dated 1 June 1880. This letter is also listed in Bailey’s ‘In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist’, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane, where the contents are summarized as ‘nomenclature’.

Please cite as “FVM-80-06-01a,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/80-06-01a