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Physical location:

RB MSS 439c, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 71.05.15

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Michael Guilfoyle, 1871-05-15. 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/1870-9/1871/71-05-15-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

Melbourne bot Garden
15/5/71
Let me in first instance express my extreme gratification, dear Mr Guilfoyle, in seeing my name connected with your natural magnificent Park, a honor which I all the more prize as the landscape is so grand on the Tweed and as I have really so little claim on your consideration.
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Guilfoyle, appreciative of the interest M was taking in his son William, decided to name an area of the settlement of Cudgen at his plantation on the Tweed River in honour of M. His doing so was never, however, officially registered. See R. Pescott (1974), p. 52.
I have utilized the
Strangea

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and shown that Bentham is wrong in uniting that genus with
Grevillea

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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, p. 453.
and that the W.A. genus
Molloya

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belongs to
Strangea

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also as a second species.
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M treated
Molloya

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as a synonym of
Strangea

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in B71.07.01, p. 131.
I hope you will allow a good deal of the best and grandest native vegetation to remain in its pristine state in your Park
Many grateful acknowledgements for your invitation. Some day later in life, if providence spares me, I hope to avail myself of it
The Sarcochilus, sent some time ago, is S. Fitzgeraldi. The Mappa will be M. tanaria. I know it from several parts of QL.
Always your regardful
Ferd von Mueller