Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 71.11.00

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1871-11. 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/1870-9/1871/71-11-00-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS in Woolls's hand.
Herriott's
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Thomas Herriott is known to have been collecting in the Macleay River district in 1870 (Sydney morning herald, 7 July 1870, p. 3). He was living at Kogarah, near Botany Bay, by 1876.
Sp.Nov/ 1871
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4. L. discolor
5. Polypodium Billar
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P. billardierei.
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8. T . rigidum
9. Selaginella uliginosa & ? denticulata
10. Pimelea linifolia
11. Mirbelia reticulata
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16. Helichrysum bracteatum
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19. Diuris maculata
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Although M used the spelling Parsonia in B68.03.04 when describing P. leichhardtii, this was evidently a slip because the other species described used the standard Parsonsia.
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D. brownii?
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38. Tabermontana orientallis
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Tabernaemontana orientalis
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Name not underlined.
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Perhaps a local common name, but no use of it has been found.