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RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 80.03.01a

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William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1880-03-01 [80.03.01a]. 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/1880-9/1880/80-03-01a-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Lastreopsis acuminata (MEL 2155106). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 5/3/80'. Letter not found.
Richmond N.S.W
March 1st 1880
My dear Baron.
The Aspidium decompositum , on which I have never seen an indusium It has a soft villous appearance in the frond and stem
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It has a soft … and stem is a note on the MS with its intended insertion point marked with an asterisk.
(No. 1.) has a creeping rhizome & is scaly about the base. This is the common form from Sydney to the Blue Mountains.
No. 2. has not a creeping rhizome, & I fancy that it is allied to no. 3 from the Clarence & No. 4. from the Macleay.
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Clarence River and Macleay River, NSW.
No. 5 is what I take to be A. tenerum — from the Blue Mountains, &, perhaps, 3, 4 & 5 may all be referred to the same species, as well as the Norfolk Island N.
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Nephrodium.
microsorum .
N. calanthum is like No. 1.
Sir W. Macarthur is now beyond correspondence. His memory fails him. Should you have any particular business to communicate, it would be better to write to Capt Onslow M.P. Camden Park
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NSW.
(his niece's husband)
I hope you will get the bottles. They were sent by the A.S.N.'s
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Australasian Steam Navigation Company. No mention of 'bottles' has not been found in the correspondence between Woolls and M.
boat
Yours faithfully
W. Woolls
P.S. The fruit of
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is dark blue.