From William Woolls1    May 1881

Richmond2

May1881

My dear Baron,

I am sending you by this post a small collection of mosses, which I found amongst my specimens. Mr Oldfield's are principally from Tasmania but Herriott's & mine are from New South Wales. These mosses are of little use to me, & they may add to your cryptogams.

Mrs Forde, as you will see by the accompanying letter,3 is willing to part with her collection, but being in bad circumstances, she would like to have some consideration. I recommended her to send the specimens & leave that matter to your generosity.

I send you a fragment of Dampiera, which is certainly a small form of D. stricta. You will see how different it is from that with whorled leaves. Miss Scott4 was particularly struck with the difference when drawing them.

I also send a fragment of Goodenia heterophylla in a monstrous state. This came from Manly Beach5

Mr. Fitzgerald paid me a visit a few days since on his way to Mt. Tomah. I took him for a drive in the hope of finding some orchids for him, but we saw only Pterostylis obtusa. He does6 know whether he will get leave to go to W. Aust.

With kind regards

Yours very sincerely

W. Woolls

 

Baron Mueller

Melbourne

 

Dampiera stricta

Goodenia heterophylla

Pterostylis obtusa

 
1
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 7/5/81.' Letter not found.
2
NSW.
3
Letter not found.
4
Harriet Scott.
5
NSW.
6
not omitted?

Please cite as “FVM-81-05-00a,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/81-05-00a