The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ I fancy that the different species of this graceful genus require very different temperatures, though all like boggy soil; but of one fact I am quite sure, that in Gleichenia dicarpa we have a spec...

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Gleichenia dicarpa
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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1880-10 [80.10.00a]. 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/1880-9/1880/80-10-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Home correspondence', Gardeners' chronicle , 4 December 1880, p. 728 (B80.12.01), and is headed 'Gleichenias'.

I fancy that the different species of this graceful genus require very different temperatures, though all like boggy soil; but of one fact I am quite sure, that in we have a species which would brave the British winters without protection. It ascends to the very limits of snow in the Australian alps, fringing beautifully the coldest brooks, and delighting to be bathed in the cool water as it rises from time to time when snow or rain are augmented. Whoever has a spring in a shady glen of Britain could rear this Gleichenia, and keep it without any winter covering; indeed, this Fern might be naturalised in your forests unless perhaps it be suffocated by stronger native plants.

Ferd. von Mueller, Melbourne.