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RSA/B.13(9), Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart. 75.02.25

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Ferdinand von Mueller to James Agnew, 1875-02-25. 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/1870-9/1875/75-02-25-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

Melbourne
25/2/75.
This day, dear Dr Agnew, I received from the Office of the Consul General of America the specimen of Alsophila, transmitted on loan to me, and which now I gratefully return. It is that variety of Alsophila excelsa , which in Gardens passes as Als. Cooperi . It is known from a few places of East Australia, and seems to occur also in one mountain-range of this colony, from whence however I have not yet seen fruit-specimens.
Unfortunately I have mislaid that part of the R.S. proceedings, in which Mr Scotts fern is mentioned;
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J. Scott (1872).
hence I remain unaware, whether the honorable Gentleman noted the singularly pale scales on the base of the frond stalkes, characteristic of
Alsophila excelsa

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or at least its variety A. Cooperi. The portion of the specimen secured does not exhibit any scales.
In the Census list
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B75.13.10.
this Alsophila should be inserted now next to A. australis as:
Alsophila excelsa

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(R. Br. pr. 158)
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R. Brown (1810), p. 158.
var. Cooperi.
With regardful
remembrance
Ferd. von Mueller