[" Novice."—The names blackbut and mountain ash are, like so many other vernaculars, often indiscriminately applied, so that Baron von Mueller says it would be advisable to have specimen sprigs of the two kinds of trees from the very locality where the question came from. The branchlets should, if possible, be in bud, flower and fruit, the latter being always available. Notes on the nature of the bark should also be given for making the specific naming absolutely sure.]
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 17 February 1894, p. 273. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 9 February 1894 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-94-02-09b,” 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