From William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller   22 June 1882

Richmond¹

June 22nd 1882.

My dear Baron,

We have done what we could to make Mr Tietkens happy!² He left with Mrs Tietkens yesterday in the Liguria & I dare say you will see them before they leave for Adelaide.

You will be surprised to hear that our friend Miss Scott³ is engaged to be married to Dr C. Morgan, a medical man in good practice at Newcastle.⁴ He is a widower & has several children, but I think the marriage will be satisfactory to all parties.⁵

1. I send you another fragment of Boronia Barkeriana from swampy ground at Botany.⁶ I hope to send you better specimens soon. I think we may conclude now that it occurs near the coast, & then passing over the Wianamatta Beds,⁷ it appears on the sand-stone of the Blue Mountains.

2. I found last week a solitary specimen of Prasophyllum rufum in a scrub near Richmond. It differs from those I used to send from Parramatta. I think you are right in making three species of the small ones.

3. This is a solitary specimen of Pterostylis nutans from the Blue Mountains. It agrees pretty well with Mr Fitzgerald's figure:⁸ the labellum is papillose

4. This looks like Solanum campanulatum. It came from the Namoi.⁹

I am much obliged for your papers on Persoonia & the leguminous plants. The remarks on the former surprised me very much. What became of the term Dicotyledonous as applied to Persoonia?¹⁰ Your remarks on Euchilopsis are interesting¹¹

Yours very sincerely

William Woolls

P.S. The labellum of P. rufum is longer & narrower than that of P. nigricans

Boronia Barkeriana

Euchilopsis

Persoonia

Prasophyllum nigricans

Prasophyllum rufum

Pterostylis nutans

Solanum campanulatum