The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 15/9/70 ¶ ¶ Very gladly, dear Mr Guilfoyle, will I name the Aspidium (Nephrodium) after your worthy father, but the fragments are so crushed that I cannot work out a proper diagnosis from them, or as...

Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS 439c, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 70.09.15

Plant names

Alsophila Rebeccae
Search for Alsophila Rebeccae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Aspidium
Search for Aspidium in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Asplenium umbrosum
Search for Asplenium umbrosum in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Cordyline
Search for Cordyline in
Grevillea
Search for Grevillea in
Nephrodium
Search for Nephrodium in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Strangea
Search for Strangea in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Zamia
Search for Zamia in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Guilfoyle, 1870-09-15. 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/1870-9/1870/70-09-15-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

15/9/70

Very gladly, dear Mr Guilfoyle, will I name the ( ) after your worthy father, but the fragments are so crushed that I cannot work out a proper diagnosis from them, or ascertain beyond doubt whether the species is new. When you get to the Tweed,

Tweed River, NSW.

you must dry some specimens well laid out between paper & also send the stalk of this fern.

I would gladly give you the striped ,

See M to W. Guilfoyle, September 1870 (in this edition as 70-09-00d).

but it is my only specimen, & as it is public property I am responsible for its return.

M exhibited a living australis among his non-competitive display at the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, Sydney, August 1870 (Intercolonial Exhibition (1870), p. 81).

I will however send you a plant, whenever I multiplied it.

Pray do not forget the specimen of the to look at, in Mr Moores collection.

See M to W. Guilfoyle, 23 August 1870.

It is much like a in fruit, but the capsule is large and the seeds have a black wing like in Hakea and the wing is loose. The flowers are unknown. The leaves are broadly linear.

I am personally quite poor and so is my Department now. So I could not afford labor and cases and expense of packing more than the few plants, which merely as a mark of attention , I sent to the Sydney Exhibition. I intended to have sent more kinds of s of Natal and particularly my new , but could not afford the expense.

your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller

The small fern = JSm