Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M33, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 90.11.12

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Gill, 1890-11-12. 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/1890-6/1890/90-11-12-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS ends without valediction at the bottom of the page.
12/11/90
The Acacia N. 173, dear Mr Gill, is probably a form of my A. microcarpa with phyllodes more curved than usual; but to be sure about the specific position, it would need to obtain ripe fruits later in the season.
The Eucalyptus N. 180 is E. amygdalina in a very narrow-leaved form, so far as can be judged without my seeing well-developed flowers. It gives a new locality for S.A. If the anthers should not be kidney shaped, it would be an other species. The leaves are thicker than in the var. linearis of Dehnhart,
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In B80.13.14, Decade 5, under E. amygdalina, M wrote:
E. linearis (Dehnhardt, Rivista Napolitana i. 3, p. 173 anno 1839) seems merely to indicate a variety, remarkable for the extraordinary narrowness of its leaves, but neither flowers nor fruits occur in the authentic specimen, preserved in the collection of Baron Cesati, who kindly placed samples of Dehnhardt's original plants at my disposal.
However, no formal reduction of Dehnhardt's species to a variety name of E. amygdalina has been found (APNI, accessed 10 February 2021).
and more resemble those of E. cneorifolia and particularly E. angustissima.