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RBG Kew, Library, Bentham, George, Flora australiensis, annotated interleaved set, vol. 2 (London 1864), facing p. 447. 64.10.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to [George Bentham], 1864-10 [64.10.00b]. 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//letters/1860-9/1864/64-10-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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These volumes of Bentham (1863-78) have been bound with the printed pages interleaved with blue, lined writing paper, on many of which annotations have been made in Bentham's hand. This fragment in M's hand, possibly an enclosure to another letter, is pasted on to the leaf facing p. 447 of vol. 2 as published, opposite the description of
Eucryphia Moorei

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, which describes the plant as 'a handsome tree' of New South Wales, collected by C. Moore near the sources of the Clyde and Shoalhaven rivers.
There is no address, date, salutation or valediction. The note is dated to October 1864 as its earliest possible date. Woolls investigated the botany of the Berrima district at the beginning of October 1864 and saw Eucryphia moorei and the 'consociated species'; see Woolls (1865). M published this information on E. moorei in B64.13.03, p. 176, issued in November 1864.
Eucryphia Moorei

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recently found by Mr Moore at Wingecarrebee,
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where it forms a tree 80' high, with stems 2' in diameter, also by Mr W. Woolls at "Sassafras place" 15 miles from Berrima
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NSW.
consociated to
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