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RB MSS M33, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 91.04.02a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Gill, 1891-04-02 [91.04.02a]. 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/1890-6/1891/91-04-02a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

2/4/91
To judge alone from the fruits and buds, dear Mr Gill, I should consider your Eucalyptus from Kangaroo-Island
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to be a large form of E. cosmophylla. I notices
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noticed?
also the
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to spring up after fire. The erect Adenanthos is A. sericca, the prostrate one A terminalis. Whether you have a third in S.A., always white-flowered, needs yet to be ascertained from a good set of specimens. I should like very much, to clear up this question.
On the
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no safe opinion can be given, til you happen to find it in flower, or perhaps a local resident could send them
With regardful remembrance
your
Ferd. von Mueller
By merely writing a letter to the hon. James Munro, Premier of Victoria, you would get the wanting decades of the Eucalyptography for your Department The distribution of my publications officially is through the Premiers Office here.