The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [ ¶ Double-Flowered Epacris.— We have already figured a double-flowered variety of great beauty — E. onosmaeflora flore-pleno, ¶ Gardeners' chronicle, 11 March 1876, p. 340, fig, 360, propagated by th...

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Epacris microphylla
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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1881-05 [81.05.00e]. 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/1880-9/1881/81-05-00e-final.odt>, accessed June 16, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from Gardeners' chronicle , 25 June 1881, p. 822. It is dated to early May as the latest that it could have been sent to have been reported in this issue.

[ Double-Flowered Epacris.— We have already figured a double-flowered variety of great beauty — E. onosmaeflora flore-pleno,

Gardeners' chronicle , 11 March 1876, p. 340, fig, 360, propagated by the nurseryman William Bull.

and which is becoming known in gardens. Baron von Mueller now sends a spray of E. microphylla with similar flowers to the one just mentioned, but smaller. It was gathered in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson.]