Ferdinand von Mueller

Melb. bot Garden

23/7/70

This day, dear Mr Guilfoyle, I learnt with delight, that you purchased 1000 acres of rich land on the Tweed .

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Tweed River, NSW.

So I am told by Mr D. Jones. You will thus have frequent opportunity of visiting the extreme north of your colony This opens the prospect of obtaining full insight into the vegetation of the whole Cape Byron District, and in your stay there you will doubtless form collections of indigenous plants. Allow me then to mention, that the vegetation thereabouts is but very imperfectly known.

I may instance, that the proteaceous genus

Strangea

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is known from near the Tweed & Cape Byron, but only in fruit . So the flowers have still to be discovered! Macarthuria Neo-Cambrica is also only as yet found on Cape Byron, so several other plants. Any one residing there or any one often and at different seasons staying there would not only make known there the extreme range of southern species north, but define also the line of demarcation of many northern species south, besides discover novelties . Thus you & your intelligent son

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William Guilfoyle.

can still much identify your names with the vegetation of Australia. So please cause as extensive collection of the Tweed plants to be dried, as circumstances at any time will admit of.