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From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle   [Feb 1889]

The party of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club which went, on my suggestion, to the Waratah country of Eastern Gippsland this summer, saw there H. elegans rising to about 20 feet, masses of these plants, quite impressing a peculiar picture on the landscape.1 The stems of the tallest Humeas are bare to about 5 feet.

F. Von Mueller.

Humea elegans

1

See Spencer & French (1889), pp. 34, 37-8, Fig. 4.

2

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Humea elegans', Gardeners' chronicle, 6 April 1889, p. 436 (B89.04.01). It is dated to February 1889 as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been published in this issue.

Please cite as “FVM-89-02-00d,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/89-02-00d