From William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller   14 Apr 1881

Richmond N.S.W.

April 14 /81

My dear Baron,

I have forwarded to you by this Post (on the matter of D. myoporoides¹) a letter from Mr Shepherd.² He had not written to me for months.

Miss Scott³ has promised to do some thing for you in the way of Cryptogams. I dare say she will communicate with you.⁴ I have also urged Mr Hamilton & Mr Colley to do some thing.

Miss Scott sent me the other day Dampiera stricta & what I suppose to be D. fasciculata. Bentham restricted the latter to W. Australia, but I see D'Candolle refers it to the East as well. Miss Scott's two plants are decidedly different. She is making drawings of them.

I have to thank you for sending my book⁵ to Trübner & Co. They are pleased with it & have ordered some copies.

When I was at the Grose⁶ the other day, I was looking for Epacris Calvertiana, but I did not find it. The enclosed, I suppose, is E. pulchella (very near riparia). The Aristida from the same place is finer than the species here & in Parramatta.⁷

By the way, I have not heard whether you recd my Mudgee⁸ specimen of Eucalyptus dealbata! I hope it has not gone astray.

Can you tell me the name of a beautiful kind of Blue Pea from the New Hebrides? I enclose a leaf & fragment of flower, but, as Miss Scott is cultivating it, I hope to get better specimens. It does not seed here

Yours very Sincerely

W. Woolls

Baron Mueller

Melbourne

Aristida

Dampiera fasciculata

Dampiera stricta

Duboisia myoporoides

Epacris Calvertiana

Epacris pulchella

Epacris riparia

Eucalyptus dealbata