The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ Mr. Charles Moore, the able Director of the Botanic Garden of Sydney, returning from a botanical excursion through the dense forests of the highlands of New England, ¶ discloses, for the first tim...

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Croton Verreauxii
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Berthold Seemann, 1865-12-26. 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/1860-9/1865/65-12-26-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Fagus Forest in New England, Australia', included as 'Correspondence' in Journal of botany, British and foreign, vol. 4, p. 123 (B66.04.02), of which Seeman was the editor.

Mr. Charles Moore, the able Director of the Botanic Garden of Sydney, returning from a botanical excursion through the dense forests of the highlands of New England,

NSW. Moore was in the area in October 1865 (Sydney morning herald, 2 November 1865, p. 3). The collecting numbers on the herbarium sheets at MEL suggest that Lomatia (collection numbers 128, 136, 130), was collected on the same trip as the new Fagus (numbers 132, 133).

discloses, for the first time, the existence of an extensive Fagus forest in that part of Australia. it covers the elevated ranges between the rivers Bellingen and Clarence, in belts from two to three miles in length. The Fagus is allied to F. Cunninghami, but the leaves are remarkably acute, their teeth smaller and more numerous; moreover the leaves attain a larger size, being not rarely 2 inches long, and measuring, in young plants, fully 4 inches in length. The subalpine nature of this Fagus country, which, in continental Australia, readily reminds of the Baw Baw ranges, is indicated by the presence of Gualtheria

Gaultheria?

hispida. Several interesting and rare trees accompany the Fagus, for instance, , , , , a new Lomatia (L. lasiantha, F.M.),

No formal publiction of this name by M has been found; but see B66.02.02, p. 134 where M named the variety Lomatia fraseri var. velutina from specimens collected by Moore from this locality.

etc. The new Beech is to be described as , in the thirty-sixth number of the 'Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.'

B66.02.01, pp. 109-10.

Ferd.Mueller.

Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Dec. 26, 1865.