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RB MSS M16, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 78.03.25

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Patrick O'Shanesy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1878-03-25. 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/1870-9/1878/78-03-25-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Blackwater Q.N.R.
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Queensland North Region.
March 25 1878
Dear Baron Mueller
I am in receipt of your note of Jany. 8th
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Letter not found.
and would have written sooner but having nothing of importance to communicate. I shall have a look out for the
Limnocharis

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MS annotation by M with an asterisk marking its location: '?Alisma parnassifol?'
about which you are so anxious altho there are but few lagoons or swamps in the neighbourhood. I enclose a fragment of a very common Acacia here , but which I cannot identify with any of the described species unless it be your A. Daintreana.
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Acacia daintreeana?
(A excelsa Benth.)
The pod, of which I enclose fragments, is 3-4 inches long. It is a tree approaching to 90 feet with a thick, rough deeply furrowed bark, and it exudes a large quantity of gum; the wood is of a deep pink color in the centre. It is very common in the open country about the Comet River.
I have just noticed your little Hibiscus brachysiphonius here, with pedicels six inches in length. Your
Acacia basaltica

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is very shy of fruiting altho it flowers profusely, the flowers are golden yellow.
I can get no fruit whatever from
Eremophila Latrobei

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. I have not yet had an opportunity of taking a run over Expedition Range a spur of which is within four or five miles of Blackwater, and where I am sure some rare if not new plants must occur. I find in looking over your letters that I have repeated Nos. 2044 and 2045 the former in
Eremophila Latrobei

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and the latter in
Bauhinia Carronii

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, The first no. 2044 is a Hibiscus , and no. 2045 an
Abutilon

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the names of which as well as the following Nos. you have not sent me Viz —
no. 2046,
Eremophila
no. 2048,
Loranthus

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no. 2049.
Acacia same as inclosed
no. 2050.
A new shrub to me (Leguminosae)
no. 2051.
Eremophila
no. 2052,
Capparis

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no. 2040,
Capparis

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no. 2041.
Cassia

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no. 2042,
Pimelea

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no. 2043,
Cassia

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You would greatly oblige by sending me the names of the above Nos. as I am very anxious about them. I will send you a few more specimens in a few day's time, I am anxiously waiting the new vol. of the Flora Austral .
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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7.
I am Dear Baron
Yours very faithfully
P. A. O.'Shannessy
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The name is more usually spelled O’Shanesy.