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Physical location:

Notebook, Colonial Botanist, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. 79.11.14a

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Preferred Citation:

Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-11-14 [79.11.14a]. 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/1870-9/1879/79-11-14a-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

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Letter not found; item is a notebook summary only, dated 14 November 1879. This letter is also mentioned in Bailey’s ‘In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist’, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane, where the subject matter of the letter is recorded as ‘nomenclature’.
[Sent Baron Mueller stipes &c part of old & young frond of
Polypodium tenericaule

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Wall .? with copious notes asking him to compare it with those of his herbarium
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Combination not published, but see discussion in M to J. Hooker, 3 March 1880. See also Bailey (1881a), p. 31 (issued August 1880; see Anonymous (1929)) under Polypodium pallidum, where he argues that the species is a true Polypodium that was placed with Aspidium tenericaule in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7, p. 759.
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