The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: The party of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club which went, on my suggestion, to the Waratah country of Eastern Gippsland this summer, saw there H. elegans rising to about 20 feet, masses of these ...

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Humea elegans
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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1889-02 [89.02.00d]. 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/1880-9/1889/89-02-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from ' ', Gardeners' chronicle, 6 April 1889, p. 436 (B89.04.01). It is dated to February 1889 as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been published in this issue.

The party of the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club which went, on my suggestion, to the Waratah country of Eastern Gippsland this summer, saw there H. elegans rising to about 20 feet, masses of these plants, quite impressing a peculiar picture on the landscape.

See Spencer & French (1889), pp. 34, 37-8, Fig. 4.

The stems of the tallest Humeas are bare to about 5 feet.

F. Von Mueller .