From J. Love1    4 November 1882

Wirrabara Forest,

South Australia,

Nov 4/82.

Esteemed Sir,

I forward with this mail a branchlet of an Eucalyptus which appears to me to be the Euc. Gracilis. My Chief2 and I were riding in this forest to day near Gladstone and he (Mr. Brown) called my attention to this Mallee neither he nor I having observed it before but it presented such a picture from its elevated site on a limestone hill with its mantle of flowers of a yellowish white we were provoked to examine it and thus the proceedure. It is as you describe in the Eucalypts Atlas several stems from one root, flowering at an hight from four to ten feet, arborescent, bark grey-greenish and also of a whitish tendency in spots, growing on limestone and a forest loam.

I am sorry my specimen should be in so bad a state of preservation but supposing you do not recognize it I will the next time I am in the district procure another and forward

I have the honour to be, Sir

Yours very truly,

J. W. Love

Forester

 

Barons Fredk Von Mueller, K.C.M.G.,

Melbourne

 

Eucalyptus Gracilis

 
1
The sheet bears the letterhead 'JWL'. MS annotation by M: 'Answ 11/11/82 F.v.M.' Letter not found.
2
John Ednie Brown.

Please cite as “FVM-82-11-04,” 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/82-11-04