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RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 82.06.22aPreferred Citation:
William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882-06-22 [82.06.22a]. 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/1880-9/1882/82-06-22a-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026
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MS annotation by M: 'Answ 26/6/82 FvM'. Letter not found.
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NSW.
June 22nd 1882.
My dear Baron,
We have done what we could to make Mr Tietkens happy!
He left with Mrs Tietkens yesterday in the
Liguria
& I dare say you will see them before they leave for Adelaide.
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Tietkins married Mary Ann Long at Richmond, NSW, on 14 June 1882 (ADB).
See W. Woolls to M, 13 May 1882.
You will be surprised to hear that our friend Miss Scott
is engaged to be married to Dr C. Morgan, a medical man in good practice at Newcastle.
He is a widower & has several children, but I think the marriage will be satisfactory
to all parties.
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Harriet Scott.
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NSW.
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The marriage proved an unhappy one; see ADB under Andrew Walker Scott.
1. I send you another fragment of
Boronia Barkeriana
from swampy ground at Botany.
I hope to send you better specimens soon. I think we may conclude now that it occurs
near the coast, & then passing over the Wianamatta Beds,
it appears on the sand-stone of the Blue Mountains.
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NSW.
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Beds of shale prevalent in the Sydney region.
2. I found last week a solitary specimen of
Prasophyllum rufum
in a scrub near Richmond. It differs from those I used to send from Parramatta. I
think you are right in making three species of the small ones.
3. This is a solitary specimen of
Pterostylis nutans
from the Blue Mountains. It agrees pretty well with Mr Fitzgerald's figure:
the labellum is papillose
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Figured in R. Fitzgerald (1875-94), vol. 1, part 6.
4. This looks like
Solanum
campanulatum
. It came from the Namoi.
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Namoi River, NSW.
I am much obliged for your papers on
Persoonia
& the leguminous plants. The remarks on the former surprised me very much. What became
of the term
Dicoty
ledonous as applied to
Persoonia
?
Your remarks on
Euchilopsis
are interesting
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B82.05.05.
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B82.06.01.
Yours very sincerely
William Woolls
P.S. The labellum of P.
rufum
is longer & narrower than that of P.
nigricans
Boronia Barkeriana
Euchilopsis
Persoonia
Prasophyllum nigricans
Prasophyllum rufum
Pterostylis nutans
Solanum campanulatum