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RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 84.07.18b

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Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-07-18 [84.07.18b]. 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/1880-9/1884/84-07-18b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Huperzia phlegmarioides (MEL 2142398). MS annotation by M: 'Rec & answ 24/7/84 FvM'. Letter not found.
Brisbane
July 18th 1884
Dear Baron Mueller
I have just been over to the Park
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Bowen Park, the Queensland Acclimatisation Society's ground in Brisbane.
to get for you a Lycopodium which I purpose calling L. tetrapterygium or some such name
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Bailey described
Lycopodium tetrapterygium

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in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Qld, vol. 1 (1884), p. 150.
to distinguish it from L varium & L Phlegmaria in both of which the leaves are scattered while in the proposed new species they are as you will see from the specimen forwarded always in four distinct winglike rows I send you two specimens of L. Phlegmaria for comparison and a specimen of a large form of L. varium all from northern Queensland
At the Park also I saw so send it to you — another
Dendrobium

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of N. Guinea No IV the stem is at times larger and clothed with leaves some of which 4 to 5 in long and nearly 1 in broad
In speaking of orchids there was in flower at the Bot Garden the other day a form of
Sarcochilus falcatus

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quite as distinct as Fitzgeralds S. montanus but I do not think it right to name all these forms until we see more of them under cultivation then if they prove consistent it could be attended to —
Kindly send me word as soon as possible what you think of my proposed new Lycopode. Hoping your health is improving
Yours very truly
F M Bailey
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Lycopodium tetrapterygium

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N. S.
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L. phlegmaria
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Dendrobium

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New Guinea
and a specimen of the large form of L. varium of Tropical Queensland
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