The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Brisbane ¶ June 11th 1887 ¶ Dear Baron ¶ ¶ I am afraid ¶ Grevillea pinnatifida ¶ would prove too tender to thrive in the South and indeed I do not think Grevillea robusta adapted for street plantin...

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RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 87.06.11a

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Grevillea pinnatifida
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Grevillea robusta
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Melaleuca
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Pleogyne cunninghamii
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Tristania conferta
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Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1887-06-11 [87.06.11a]. 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/1880-9/1887/87-06-11a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS removed from a specimen of , not identified, in 1968.

Brisbane

June 11th 1887

Dear Baron

I am afraid would prove too tender to thrive in the South and indeed I do not think adapted for street planting it is far too short lived. do you not find our Brisbane Box a useful plant for the purpose? It thrives on poor soil and stands exposure and affords a good shade. I saw Eaves the other day and reminded him of the seed

See F. Bailey to M, 26 November 1886.

for which I have your pound (£1) and he has promised to collect it the first opportunity he tells me that he had it collected once but his people destroyed it with a lot of rubbish. I am sorry you have been kept out of it so long

yours very truly

F. M. Bailey

I enclose a few specimens which I fancy are new I received them amongst others from Musgrave

Cape York Peninsula, north Qld.

from an old correspendent the specimens are not very good but probably you have better from the same part from your collector

W. A. Persieh replaced Karsten as M's collector in North Queensland in around 1881, and continued to collect for him until he left to work for the German New Guinea Company in 1887.

One seems near Miers but I have only your account of that plant in Fragmenta

B75.07.01, p. 82.

the others are a new

Bailey (1891a), p. 13, named both jacobsonii and S. uniseta from specimens collected by George Jacobson at Musgrave, Qld. There is a single specimen of each in Melbourne, MEL 0104324 and MEL 0104330, each undated but attributed to Jacobson as collector.

and a probably new