Ferdinand von Mueller

18/9/88.

It needs not my assurance, dear Mr Gill, that I will be happy to name any plants for you, even mosses, lichens and fungs; and with this view I would advise you, to send specimens, numbered consecutively, and to keep back a set correspondingly numbered. What you may send need not be large, so long as it is instructive, by bearing flowers or fruits . Small parcels come best by successive mails, and can better be attended to at once, than largely accumulated lots. If you include in your collection also the minutest spring-weeds, little annual rushes, saltbushes, floating and submerged plants, novelties and many rarities would be likely secured.

Of course I can only through your excellent Chief

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John Ednie Brown, Conservator of Forests in SA.

communicate with you, and shall always send the name-lists &c through him.

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MS is folded over but has not been sealed, and on the outside M has written: 'Walter Gill Esqr &c Chief Forester &c Wirrabarra '. It presumably accompanied M to J. Ednie Brown, 18 September 1888 (in this edition as 88-09-18a).

The seeds of

Acacia iteaphylla

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will be quite a boon, as it would flower so early in European Conservatories Envelopes, opening at the narrow end, are very convenient, to trust

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thrust?

plants into, even indiscriminately, so that a dozen or more sorts particularly of small kinds can be trusted together into an envelope, which need not be opened again, but can be placed in sun-light or near a fire-place for drying. A mere pocket-handkerchief, knotted to gether at its four corners will take half a hundred different plants while you are

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and?

any friends of yours are travelling, and these specimens could, when any camp is reached, be placed into envelopes, surplus-branches being broken off before