Emerald1 Augt 17 81
Dear Baron Mueller
I have received your note2 and am glad you enjoy good health.
With regard to the Springsure Macrozamia which you believe is M. Moorei3 I beg to say that it is quite different to the other one found by me on the Drummond Range4 which you also say is probably M. Moorei. In the latter species the leaflets are quite close together on the rachis, only a very narrow ridge seperating them, while in the Springsure plant the rachis is an inch wide between them. I am sending a paper on the Springsure plants to the Linnean Society of N. S. Wales, of which I am now a member,5 and I have noticed this Macrozamia in it. I could find no perfect pods of Acacia polybotria Benth.6 they being punctured by insects. The pod is apparently about four inches long, flat, and about three lines wide, with thickened sutures, seeds longitudinal. I believe it is straight, and is not contracted between the seeds. I enclose fragments of a Thomasia or Keraudrenia from spurs of the Drummond Range. The petals are present in this plant; also a Goodenia from the same locality. You did not send me the name of the Helichrysum enclosed in my last note. I have received no Fragmenta for a length of time.
There is a man of the name of De Lesier or Delisier7 here who says he has collected for you in South Australia and Victoria.
Yours faithfully
P. A. O'Shanesy
Acacia polybotria
Goodenia
Helichrysum
Keraudrenia
Macrozamia moorei
Thomasia
Qld.
Letter not found.
See P. O'Shanesy to M, 26 August 1881 (in this edition as 81-08-26a).
Qld.
O'Shanesy (1882). See P. O'Shanesy to M, 23 December 1879 (in this edition as 79-12-23b).
A. polybotrya?
Captain E. Alfred Delisser, a surveyor who collected on the Nullarbor Plain at the head of the Great Australian Bight, apparently in the 1860s?
MS found at MEL with a bundle of letters in an old Cycadaceae Supplement parcel. MS annotation by M: 'Answ 29/8/81'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-81-08-17,” 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