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Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva. 79.09.03

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1879-09-03. 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/1870-9/1879/79-09-03-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

3/9/79.
By this post, honored Sir, I beg to send you the first two decades of my Monography of the Eucalyptus-species,
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B79.13.11.
and two more decades will soon follow. On this genus, which prevails over the whole continent of Australia, observations will have yet to be made for many years, though perhaps not much will be added to the species hereafter. I am still much in want of an original specimen of E. pallens & E. obtusiflora of your illustrious parent, so that I may place both correctly in the Atlas.
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M was sent samples; see M to A. de Candolle, 10 January 1880. Neither of these species had an article in M's Eucalyptographia devoted to it.
Euc. punctata D.C I have restored as a well marked species.
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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, p. 242 had, based on the description only, treated E. punctata as a variety of E. tereticornis; in the Eucalyptographia entry for E. punctata (B80.13.14, Sixth Decade), M noted that it matched E. stuartina var longifolia of Bentham (p. 244).
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Would a copy of the Euc. Atlas be acceptable to the Geneve Société.
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Institut national Genevois?