Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 81.12.05

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1881-12-05. 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/81-12-05>, accessed September 11, 2025

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MS found with a specimen of
Casuarina inophloia

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(MEL 538284), collected by Carl Hartmann at Toowoomba, Qld. The folder also includes a description by M. The species was described in B82.04.10, under the joint names of M and Bailey.
Queensland Museum.
Brisbane December 5th 1881
Dear Baron Mueller
I want a description of
Musa textilis

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and cannot find one in any of the works either I or my friends have — Would it be too much to ask you if you have a diagnosis of the plant to let me have it — Some persons here think of planting it for the sake of the fibre — one has been distributed in the colony (a purple fruited banan
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banana?
) under the name but from what I can make out this is wrong. If you could point out to me or send me a work wherein it was described I would purchas it.
I have the pleasure to thank you for your kindness in sending me the
Jacksonia Stackhousii

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and the several other things lately I have two or three little thing to forward
No I is some fruit of a species of
Hakea

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from the upper Thompson River
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Qld.
I have no foliage but the person who gave it to me told me it formed a tree I cannot match it by any of the species in the Flora.
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Bentham (1863-78).
Received from R. C. Burton Telegraph depart[men]t
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The final sentence is a marginal addition by Bailey.
No II Kindly compare this Eucalypt with E. piperita, Sm and tell me if you make it that species Collected by A. Williams 8 mile Plains about 10 m.
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miles.
from Brisbane
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Collected … Brisbane is a marginal addition by Bailey.
III I have received also from C. Hartmann these specimens of the fibrous barked Casuarina which you will remember receiving from me some year ago, and you proposed the name C. inophloia for it but do not think it the one spoken of by poor Leichhardt — who called it C. villosa?
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See Leichhardt (1847), p. 49.
anyhow it is a distinct species and you might well describe it as C. inophloia if I thought you would not I would do so I feel so confident of its distinctness
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Polycarpaea

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sp.
By the by did you not receive the grass I sent out of Father Woods lot you have not noticed it to me
Rev B Scortechini has been sent on church matters in another direction so will not be able to visit Frasers Island for a time
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Qld. See also B. Scortechini to M, 8 December 1881.
Yours very truly
and much obliged
F M Bailey
Excuse haste
I want to catch the mail today
FMB