The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [ ¶ In a letter, written to me in September 1879, he traces the Mellitose-flow also to the action of Cyclocheila Australiae, likewise fully described and brilliantly figured in the Decade quoted above...

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79.09.00f

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Frederick McCoy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-09 [79.09.00f]. 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/1870-9/1879/79-09-00f-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from the entry on Eucalyptus viminalis in M's Eucalyptographia , B84.11.02, where he discusses the origins of the so-called manna associated with the species.

[ In a letter, written to me in September 1879, he traces the Mellitose-flow also to the action of Cyclocheila Australiae, likewise fully described and brilliantly figured in the Decade quoted above]

McCoy (1878-90), decade 5, plate 50, where it is called Cyclochila australasiae .