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Physical location:

RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 83.01.14

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J. W. Love to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883-01-14. 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/1880-9/1883/83-01-14-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of
Eucalyptus

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anceps (MEL 80647). MS letterhead: 'JWL'. MS annotation by M: 'Answ 22/1/83 FvM'. Letter not found.
Wirrabara Forest,
South Australia
January 14/83
Esteemed Sir,
I forward by same mail two specimens of Eucalypti found by me lately in this forest .
"No 1." from a high, bleak hill soil shallow and sandy of a reddish hue, and calcareous. A very upright slender bush some five feet high one long thin stem branching out into a bushy thick head branchlets of a yellowish red long and very slender. Bark, smooth and redish brown towards the base, but as it nears the extremities of a shining bright yellow, found among the Mallee Scrub and dwarf
Acacia

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s somewhat sheltered position, not at all common.
No 2 — A tall Mallee, smooth bark, yellowish, decorticating in half cylinder shreds. Of somewhat weeping habit, very thick foliage at top otherwise "clean" stem; some 10 or 14 feet high soil as No 1. in fact I found the two together.
I shall feel obliged if you will please give me name of the two vars
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varieties?
I beg to forward seed as wished.
I am, Sir,
Your obedt. Servant,
J. W. Love
Forester.
Baron Ferd von Mueller, K.C.M.G., &c.
Melbourne