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Physical location:

RB MSS M33, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 91.10.21

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Gill, 1891-10-21. 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/1890-6/1891/91-10-21-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

21/10/91
The Duboisia, sent by you, dear Mr Gill, is the D. Hopwoodii, which differs from D. myoporoides in much narrower leaves and in some other respects; it is also of other geographic distibution, D. myoporoides belonging to humid forest regions of litoral tracts only.
As the medicinal properties are much like those of
Hyoscyamus

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Belladonna

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, it is a highly dangerous plant. I should like to have some ripe berries, so that I could rear this species for therapeutic experiments freshly in some quantity
The Eucalyptus, of which you sent a branchlet in fruit, is not Euc. Leucoxylon. Could you procure also flowering specimens?
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.