Ferdinand von Mueller

9/4/88.

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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 17. May. 88.

I am not sure, dear Mr Dyer, whether I have pointed out to you already, that the seeds, which some months ago were sent to you as those of

Acacia polybotrya

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,

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Marginal annotation adjacent to Acacia polybitrya: noted W.W.

belong to a very different species, namely A. Baileyana. A figure has many weeks ago been lithographed of this extremely rare and beautifully delicate Acacia for the 12th Decade of the Acacias, which part has however not yet appeared, altho' the lithographing of the Acacias is now nearly completed also for the 13th Decade.

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B88.13.01. A polybotrya and A. baileyana were both illustrated in Decade 12.

Therewith the Acacias come to a stop for the present, as I am unwilling to admit any species, of which I cannot yet give the analysis from bud to embryo, and as also none will be taken up for my decades, of which any other illustration appeared already. 120 or 130 Acacias, none of which ever illustrated before, should be a good permanent help for naming Acacias anywhere in culture; and we may annually get additional material, so as to give more plates. But I write on this occasion principly with a view of your getting any seedlings of A. Baileyana at once correctly named. I next shall tackle lithographically

Salsolaceae

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of Australia,

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B89.13.04 and subsequent Decades.

many of them though not all

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though not all marginal note with intended position indicated by an asterisk.

being so important for sheep-pastures