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84.04.00

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[Edith Thornton] to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-04. 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/1880-9/1884/84-04-00-final.odt>, accessed June 17, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from a letter 'from a correspondent' to the Daily telegraph (Sydney), 19 April 1884, p. 9.
[The other day, a few minutes after I had shot a brush turkey, in the dense brush of the Upper Orara River,
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NSW, near Grafton.
I came upon a beautiful flowering tree which, with a large experience among the brushes of the colony, I had never seen before. …
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The omitted text is a description of a tree with large scarlet flowers, almost certainly Stenocarpus sinuatus, a specimen of which, recorded as collected by Miss E. Thornton at the Orara River in 1884, is now in the National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL 676462).
I have sent specimens to Mr. Moore of the Botanical Gardens, Sydney, and to Baron von Mueller, of Melbourne.]