The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 6./5/66 ¶ Honored and dear Sir. ¶ ¶ Accept my cordial thanks for your kindness in sending me the fruit specimens of Knightia excelsa, which enable me to draw now the clear lim...

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Physical location:

Folder 3, box 51, James Hector, correspondence received, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Archives, Wellington. 66.05.06

Plant names

Knightia excelsa
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to James Crawford, 1866-05-06. 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/1860-9/1866/66-05-06-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Melbourne bot. Garden

6./5/66

Honored and dear Sir.

Accept my cordial thanks for your kindness in sending me the fruit specimens of , which enable me to draw now the clear limits between this genus and an allied one of North East Australia

I am very much obliged to Mr Buchanan,

John Buchanan (1819-1898).

for the trouble he has taken in securing the material.

I have a fair herbarium of N.Z. plants, most useful for critical comparison in the examination of Australian plants. Still it is far from completely representing the species and varieties of the flora of your beautiful islands. I do not know whether Mr Buchanan is forming a state herbarium also of extra-native plants. If so I will gladly contribute towards it & I could thus in interchange enrich also our state collection here.

I am much in want of a case full of seedlings of any Coniferous plant of N.Z for this garden & I would gladly send in return whatever might be needed from my establishment.

The Knightia is also best transferred by seedlings. Our garden here does not possess this elegant tree.

I am, dear & honored Sir, your regardful

Ferd. Mueller F.R.S.

The Hon. Jam. Crawford

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