The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Emerald ¶ Augt 17 ¶ ¶ 81 ¶ Dear Baron Mueller ¶ ¶ I have received your note ¶ and am glad you enjoy good health. ¶ ¶ With regard to the Springsure ¶ Macrozamia ¶ which you believe is ¶ M. Moo...

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RB MSS M16, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 81.08.17

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Acacia polybotria
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Goodenia
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Macrozamia moorei
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Preferred Citation:

Patrick O'Shanesy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1881-08-17. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/81-08-17>, accessed July 16, 2025

MS found at MEL with a bundle of letters in an old Cycadaceae Supplement parcel. MS annotation by M: 'Answ 29/8/81'. Letter not found.

Emerald

Qld.

Augt 17 81

Dear Baron Mueller

I have received your note

Letter not found.

and am glad you enjoy good health.

With regard to the Springsure Macrozamia which you believe is M. Moorei

See P. O'Shanesy to M, 26 August 1881 (in this edition as 81-08-26a).

I beg to say that it is quite different to the other one found by me on the Drummond Range

Qld.

which you also say is probably M. Moorei . In the latter species the leaflets are quite close together on the rachis, only a very narrow ridge seperating them, while in the Springsure plant the rachis is an inch wide between them. I am sending a paper on the Springsure plants to the Linnean Society of N. S. Wales, of which I am now a member,

O'Shanesy (1882). See P. O'Shanesy to M, 23 December 1879 (in this edition as 79-12-23b).

and I have noticed this Macrozamia in it. I could find no perfect pods of Benth.

A. polybotrya?

they being punctured by insects. The pod is apparently about four inches long, flat, and about three lines wide, with thickened sutures, seeds longitudinal. I believe it is straight, and is not contracted between the seeds. I enclose fragments of a or from spurs of the Drummond Range. The petals are present in this plant; also a from the same locality. You did not send me the name of the enclosed in my last note. I have received no Fragmenta for a length of time.

There is a man of the name of De Lesier or Delisier

Captain E. Alfred Delisser, a surveyor who collected on the Nullarbor Plain at the head of the Great Australian Bight, apparently in the 1860s?

here who says he has collected for you in South Australia and Victoria.

Yours faithfully

P. A. O'Shanesy