Waitzia Corymbosa?
Is in my Beleif1 the best liked and most fattening of all the Compositae.
This Specimen is very Dwarf, in good soil and favourable Seasons it grows from 1 foot to 18 inches high densely branched and grows so thick that you cannot step without Crushing them under foot They cover many acres of ground when in flower which is from October to latter part of December
The nearest I know them to grow to Albany2 is north east 60 miles.
W. Webb.
Compositae
Waitzia Corymbosa
belief?
WA.
MS is an undated fragment found in the Herbarium collection. Although no Webb specimen of Waitzia corymbosa is recorded at MEL (AVH, accessed 28 July 2023), in his discussion of the genus (B96.12.01) M lists this species (p. 935) and others in the genus, collected by Webb at Salt River [now Pallinup River?], WA in 1885. AVH lists some other Asteraceae that Webb collected at Salt River in 1885, but no other Asteraceae are recorded in other years from there. MEL has Webb collections of Waitzia species made from other localities in other years, but those from King George Sound are eliminated by the comment in the letter that they did not grow near Albany, and some do not have enough precision in the locality to assess the likelyhood of them being the specimen enclosed. There is a specimen with flowers collected in 1896 from north of the Stirling Ranges that might be the one concerned, but given that the flowering period is listed in the letter as October to December and M mailed B96.12.01 on 21 September (footnote p. 933), late 1885 is the most probable date for this letter.
Please cite as “FVM-85-00-00i,” 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