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RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 78.04.01

Plant names

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William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1878-04-01. 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/1870-9/1878/78-04-01-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Verbesina encelioides var encelioides (MEL 2169904), collected by Woolls as
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, 1878.
Richmond
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NSW.
April 1 /78
My dear Doctor,
Our venerable friend Mr Clarke is better, but I do not think he will be able to take part again in public affairs
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W. B. Clarke died on 16 June 1878.
With regard to Sparganium , you may recollect that I forwarded to you Brown's S. angustifolium from Parramatta.
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R. Brown (1810), p. 338.
The Richmond plant seems different, & identical with the figure of S. simplex in Baxter's British Phenogamous Botany Vol. 4. p. 276.
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Baxter (1843).
I should like to see a tracing of E. punctata . It has been considered as a variety of E. tereticornis , but the operculum is always much shorter, the leaves differently veined, & the wood tougher. I am inclined to think that the plant which I have hitherto regarded as E. punctata is your E. Stuartiana
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to which I refer is spreading widely in the low lands. It is not any of those I think, described in the Flora
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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, pp. 537-9.
The leaves are sessile, & the achenes winged. The shape of the leaf is peculiar. Should it be necessary, I will send a better specimen.
Yours very sincerely
W. Woolls