From William Woolls   8 January 1887

Richmond¹

Jany 8th 1887

My dear Baron,

The flowers of Eupomatia laurina are of "a greenish yellow colour", but they soon turn to a kind of brown & wither away. I have eaten the fruit, & though certainly very inferior to the cherimoyes,² it resembles that plant in flavour. I have sometimes thought that Eupomatia might improve by cultivation.

The Callitris at Mount Wilson does not exceed a foot or so, but the fruit resembles that of F. Muelleri,³ which is plentiful on the banks of George's River & is only a small tree

I sent you Viscum angulatum from Mudgee⁴ many years ago. I did not then know what it was & you gave me the name. I have not any specimen.

The Eucalypt at Mount Wilson rose to a great height without a branch & we could not get any branchlet. The fruit underneath seemed to be that of E. macrorhyncha. The leaves I enclose came from a young tree in the neighbourhood, & they answer very well to the leaves of your figure, & differ from those of E. eugenioides or Capitella. ⁵

I am much obliged for the seeds, & I intend to send a paragraph to the S. M. Herald ⁶ about them.

Do you think that the enclosed fragment of Pomaderris from Mount Wilson is P. ledifolia?

I am reserving the large fruit of the Hakea to send you

Yours very sincerely

W. Woolls

Baron F. von Mueller [R. S.] &c

&c &c

Melbourne

E. pauciflora is on Mt Wilson

Callitris

Eucalyptus Capitella

Eucalyptus eugenioides

Eucalyptus macrorhyncha

Eucalyptus pauciflora

Eupomatia laurina

Frenela muelleri

Hakea

Pomaderris ledifolia

Viscum angulatum