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University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Beccari 12/32. 80.09.23a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Odoardo Beccari, 1880-09-23 [80.09.23a]. 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/1880-9/1880/80-09-23a-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

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In the archive, the letter is folded inside M to O. Beccari, 26 July 1886.
23/9/80
You have in Webb's collection the plants of Labillardière, dear Prof Beccari, and thus you would be able to identify
Eucalyptus incrassata

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; as I am not sure, whether Bentham recognized it rightly in the large form of E. dumosa.
2
See Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3, pp. 230–1; B60.05.01, p. 59.
Perhaps you have even a leaf, bud, flower and fruit from Lab. specime[n]
3
editorial insertion: paper is damaged.
to spare so that I could institute the comparison myself. I hope you get the Eucalyptograph, regularly and free in post.
4
Decades 5 and 6 of B80.13.14 had been received elsewhere in Europe by September 1880.
Only after the Exhibition
5
International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880-1.
I shall have time to make a return-sending for the Sumatra-plants.
6
See M to O. Beccari, 5 February 1880.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
I suppose all your sets of duplicates are distributed, otherwise one would be highly acceptable & I could return Queensland plants for it.
Have you never met in Florence the generous Madame Smillie, who lately lost her last child, a most accomplished daughter there.
7
Jean Nairne Smillie, daughter of the former Advocate General of SA, William Smillie, died in Florence on 29 February 1880 (South Australian register, 30 April 1880, p. 2 S).
8
The remaining text is from a single sheet, pinned inside this letter.
Lygodium Japonicum is well known to me; I identified it for Australia with L. scandens & L. reticulatum already in 1870 (fragm. VII, 83-84.);
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B70.01.01.
if a wrong name came with D'Albertis's
10
Luigi Maria d'Albertis.
plants to Baker, then two spec. must have been intermingled, or the labels have become displaced.
Linné did not name any Lygodium , nor Zollinger any
Psilotum

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