The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Herbert River ¶ November 1868 ¶ My Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I was up on Mount Grahame on Saturday and returned to station last night I have inclosed a fragment of a tree Fern

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Physical location:

RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 68.11.00

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Alsophila
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Bowenia spectabilis
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Dailinga
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Preferred Citation:

John Dallachy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1868-11. 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/1860-9/1868/68-11-00-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS found with a specimen of Cyathea woollsiana (MEL1061259). MS annotation at head of letter by M: ' Woollsii F.v.M.' When M described the species under this name in B74.04.01, p. 179, he attributed its discovery to Dallachy on Mt Graham.

Herbert River

Qld.

November 1868

My Dear Sir,

I was up on Mount Grahame on Saturday and returned to station last night I have inclosed a fragment of a tree Fern — the steam of the tree is from 12 to 14 feet high Clothed with dense Brown hairs at the base of the fronds the steam is rough — about 2 inches in diameter it I suppose is an but think that I have not sent it to you before on the tope of the above mountain is covered with the most dense scrub and high trees some of them 150 to 200 feet in hight. I could not get to the highest Point of the mountain on account of the scrub — there are miles of it here and this mountain and scrub no white man has ever been in it but myself — I have got the in flower for you — it grows in a bundance on the tope in Scrub; I saw a tree of

Darlingia?

a hundred feet or more in hight there was no trees in [...]

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