Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 81.01.00

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1881-01. 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/1880-9/1881/81-01-00-final.odt>, accessed June 16, 2026

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M’s new-year greeting indicates that this note was probably written in early January. MS precedes M to E. Ramsay, 22 January 1881, in the file, and is dated to 1881 on this basis.
"Wilga"
Sandal-wood =
Eremophila Mitchelli

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Bentham ( not a true Sandal tree)
Sandal-Wood Pink variety =
Geijera parviflora

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Lindl Not a Sandal tree.
With best felicitation to the new year
regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.