To Frederick Bailey   16 November 1882

16/11/82.

 

The plants, just received from you, dear Mr Bailey, are:

III.

Melochia pyramidata, L.

V.

Capparis spinosa L.

var. nummularia D.C.

IV.

Capparis, without fl. & fr.1

VI.

Distichostemon phyllopterus, FvM

II.

Polycarpaea spirostylis, FvM. New locality?

I.

Fimbristylis

This requires critical examination. I have some more specimens of allied congeners laid aside, and will soon attend to them all.

Where is Northcote? on what River?2

Do you know, what Hill's Iris Robinsoniana from Mt Bellenden Ker is, as mentioned some years ago in his Report to Government. I cannot think that his plant could be identical with the plant from Howes Island.3 Did he bring any living plants; if so did they ever flower? It must surely be a conspicuous plant, about which I am still completely in the dark, as he never gave me a specimen of it.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

I took Mr Gregory & his Lady to the Liedertafel Concert last Monday Evening.

Could you ask Mr Hill for a specimen of his Iris, if he kept his dry plants?4

 

Capparis spinosa var. nummularia

Distichostemon phyllopterus

Fimbristylis

Iris Robinsoniana

Melochia pyramidata

Polycarpaea spirostylis

 
1
flowers and fruit.
2
Northcote homestead, on the NSW side of the Macintyre River which forms the boundary between NSW and Qld?
3
i.e. Lord Howe Island.
4
Note added by M in pencil.

Please cite as “FVM-82-11-16a,” 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 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-11-16a