Dear Baron
I send you all I have of the Grevillea pinnatifida (Dr Bancroft marked this K in sending the log1) seed & follicle and will hope to get more another year — And also another plant regarding which I may have made a mistake. I took it from the rather poor specimens to be your Halfordia scleroxyla,2 but from the more matured capsules now brought down by Dr Thos L Bancroft I am in doubt still it is given in the wood catalogue3 at No 52a. as Halfordia scleroxyla F.v.M. (I have seen no flowers) the log of this was marked R. from Johnstone River.4 I would like you to compare if not too much trouble.
Yours very truly
F M B
Grevillea pinnatifida
Halfordia scleroxyla
Presumably for Bailey's collection of Qld woods for the Indian and Colonial Exhbition, London.
MS annotation interlined by M: 'Metrosideros pachysperm'.
Bailey (1886a).
Qld.
MS found with a specimen of Grevillea baileyana (MEL 2171821) originally marked at MEL as Grevillea pinnatifida. The letter is dated on the basis of an entry in Bailey’s letter register with this date, ‘Halfordia scleroxyla & Gre pinnatifida’ (In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book 1, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane).
Please cite as “FVM-86-05-06,” 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