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RB MSS M17, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.07.07

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Leonard Rodway to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-07-07. 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/1890-6/1892/92-07-07-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Eucalyptus tenuiramus (MEL 231659). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 10/7/92'. Letter not found.
151 Macquarie St,
Hobart.
July 7th /92.
Dear Baron,
I must once again encroach on your valuable time. The enclosed sedge, found by Mr Wm Fitzgerald I can only make a
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only the Hypogynous scales are only as long as the nut. I am aware ther[e]
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is up to the present only one species in
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, but looseness of the inflorescence, perfectly distichous glumes & feathery scales which are six in number prevent me finding another place for it. The nut is broadly obovate black with 3 slightly raised ribs.
It grows at Georges Bay.
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Tas. At this point Rodway has included pencil sketches of the nut 'mag' [i.e. magnified] and 'nat size': In the original the magnified nut is 20 mm high.
I also enclose a piece of a very common Eucalypt about here. Habitat: glaucous drooping, bark smooth ashy white. The venation of the leaves appear to me to resemble E. amygdalina but the fruit is more that of E. obliqua. It is always looked on here as E. viminalis & is the plant alluded to by Spicer as a white Gum growing near Huon Rd Toll-Bar. Is it a glaucous form of E. amygdalina var radiata. Would you kindly also inform me Is Gum-topped stringy bark (E. haemastoma) now included in E obliqua or which species.
Also, am I to consider the large Eucalypt described by you in Trans. Roy. Soc Tas. 1886, from specimens sent you by T. B. Moore
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as a large growth of E. vernicosa?
Yours Faithfully
L Rodway.
P.S. I will endeavour to send you further specimens of the intermediate type of Pterostylis in a week or so. The plant figured in Hook. Fl. Tas.
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J. Hooker (1860), part 2, tab. 114, B.
as P. nana is quite glabrous & is very common in flower in September. I have always considered it P. pedunculata. The one figured in Hook. as P. pedunculata
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J. Hooker (1860), part 2, tab. 114, A.
flowers a little later & I have always taken it for P. furcata. If you wish I will forward good specimens when they are out
L.R.