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RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 77.06.12

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Thomas Watson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-06-12. 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/1870-9/1877/77-06-12-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Eucalyptus acmenoides (MEL 1603562).
Baron F Von Mueller
Melbourne
Wigton
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Qld.
June 12. 1877
Dear Sir
I now send you a small quantity of seeds of E. Watsonii
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Eucalyptus watsoniana?
I had considerable difficulty to get them — the season has been very dry and the seedvessels all dropped off soon after flowering with the exception of two trees, and they had very few seeds, nearly all being barren — none of the other corymbosae
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That is, the group of eucalypts akin to E. corymbosa, the 'bloodwoods'.
had any seeds at all. —
The trees occur under the same circumstances as the other Eucalypts being associated with E. Siderophloia, several Corymbosae E. maculata and a few hundred yards away E melanophloia also a stringy barked Eucalypt with a small narrow leaf I send you a piece of the bark with some of the leaves & seed a large tree 60 to 80 feet high. I have not seen this tree nor E. Watsonii any where else the natives tell me there is a large quantity growing between this place and a place called Proston, but their information is not to be depended on
I remain Yours
Th. Wentworth Watson
The Ceratodus
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The Queensland lung fish. M had been seeking specimens for Stuttgart, and sent a specimen that arrived in December 1877, see F. Krauss to the Royal Administration, Württemberg, 30 December 1877 (in this edition as M77-12-30). It is not known from whom M obtained that specimen.
will be sent shortly
TW