From Frederick Bailey1    18 July 1884

Brisbane

July 18th 1884

Dear Baron Mueller

I have just been over to the Park2 to get for you a Lycopodium which I purpose calling L. tetrapterygium or some such name3 to distinguish it from L varium & L Phlegmaria in both of which the leaves are scattered while in the proposed new species they are as you will see from the specimen forwarded always in four distinct winglike rows I send you two specimens of L. Phlegmaria for comparison and a specimen of a large form of L. varium all from northern Queensland

At the Park also I saw so send it to you — another Dendrobium of N. Guinea No IV the stem is at times larger and clothed with leaves some of which 4 to 5 in long and nearly 1 in broad

In speaking of orchids there was in flower at the Bot Garden the other day a form of Sarcochilus falcatus quite as distinct as Fitzgeralds S. montanus but I do not think it right to name all these forms until we see more of them under cultivation then if they prove consistent it could be attended to —

Kindly send me word as soon as possible what you think of my proposed new Lycopode. Hoping your health is improving

Yours very truly

F M Bailey

 

No

I

Lycopodium tetrapterygium N. S.

II

}

L. phlegmaria

III

IV

Dendrobium New Guinea

and a specimen of the large form of L. varium of Tropical Queensland

FMB

 

Dendrobium

Lycopodium Phlegmaria

Lycopodium tetrapterygium

Lycopodium varium

Sarcochilus falcatus

Sarcochilus montanus

 
1
MS annotation by M: 'Rec & answ 24/7/84 FvM.' Letter not found.
2
Bowen Park, the Queensland Acclimatisation Society’s ground in Brisbane.
3
Bailey described Lycopodium tetrapterygium in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Qld, vol. 1 (1884), p. 150.

Please cite as “FVM-84-07-18b,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-07-18b