J. R. GARLAND
Solicitor.
Wagga Wagga1
30 Decr 1890
Dear Sir
Since receipt of your last letter,2 I have not, until a few days ago had an opportunity of going out to the Hanging Rock for a further supply of the "Senecio". I now send you some specimens from various parts of the plant, including some ripe seeds in heads. — It is difficult to procure good sound heads with ripe seed as the heads are generally much injured by caterpillars.
The plant is a shrub or under-shrub sometimes attaining a height of 5 or 6 feet, the flowering branches appear to die back after the seed ripens. All the plants which I have seen are growing amongst the rocks at the foot of the perpendicular face of the Hanging Rock Mountain & thus are sheltered from the Westerly winds.
Wishing you the complements of the season
I remain
Yours faithfully
J. R. Garland
Senecio
Please cite as “FVM-90-12-30,” 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