Foster1 Nov 14 /88
Dear Baron
I send you by this post a sample of the dwarf Eucalypt which grows here and no where else in Gippsland and which I believe to be a form of E. Cosmophylla. At any rate I cannot make it agree with E. goniocalyx with which I am well acquainted and which grows here in its usual typical form.
I send the sample in a tin hoping that it will thus reach you in its fresh condition. In January this Eucalypt flowers and I will then forward you the blossom.
If convenient to you I will call to see you on Thursday morning the 22d inst. Do not trouble to write unless it should be inconvenient. I should like to examine samples of E. Amygdalina, E. cosmophylla, E. pillularis2 and E. Haemastoma. The last collection I sent you and you said had not been arranged I should if not inconvenient to you like to compare.
I am dear Baron
yours faithfully
A W Howitt
P.S. I should also be obliged if you would let me again examine the N.S.W. example of E. piperita.
Baron Ferd v. Mueller KCMG
Government Botanist
Melbourne
Eucalyptus Amygdalina
Eucalyptus Cosmophylla
Eucalyptus goniocalyx
Eucalyptus Haemastoma
Eucalyptus pillularis
Eucalyptus piperita
Please cite as “FVM-88-11-14a,” 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