Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 82.00.00

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882. 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/1880-9/1882/82-00-00-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

1
Bailey succeeded Walter Hill as Queensland's Government Botanist in 1881 and became responsible for the Brisbane Botanic Garden. The specimen of
Cassia pistaciaefolia

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,MEL 2044874, with Bailey's collection number '45', is dated 1882, as are specimens '42', MEL 1548355, Themeda avenacea (of which
Anthistiria gigantea

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is a synonym), and '44', MEL 2044875,
Cassia ferruginea

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.
Dear Baron Mueller
can you help me to the names of any of the specimens in packet numbered 40-51 inclusive? I have to label the plants in our bot. Gar. and there is no names to many of the large trees, and no account of where they came from and there are very few useful books in the library and the Gov have refused to supply me this year with more — Hill had £50 - a year for the library but as he did not spend it they say I have no need of it — in fact were it not for my own books I could do but little but I know if it is in your power to help me you will so I send and hope you will forgive […]
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Some words have been cut off the MS, with only the tops of a few letters remaining.
Your
FMB
40
Tall shrub
41
Tall tree
42
Tall grass Anthistiria? gigantea
43
Pithecolobium

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44
Cassia? ferruginea
45
C. pistaciaefolia
46
Acacia

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sp
47
A tall climber
48
Albizzia

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fine shade tree
49
do
50
Shrub —
51
?
Albizzia

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