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RB MSS M17, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 94.05.21a

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Leonard Rodway to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1894-05-21 [94.05.21a]. 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/1890-6/1894/94-05-21a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS removed from specimen folder without details being recorded. MS annotation by M: 'Answ 26/5/94'. Letter not found.
Hobart.
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Tas.
May 21st /94.
Dear Baron,
Widely distributed on the subalpine slopes of Mt. Wellington
Eucalyptus urnigera

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attains a height of 70 to 100 ft. & with it & indistinguishable in general features is a gum that hitherto I had only procured the ripe capsules of & they were so similar to E. coccifera that I took this tree to be a sub-alpine form. I now find it in bud & have but little doubt from its parallel staminal cells & leaf peculiarities to be the gum Moore described as E. Muelleri.
I enclose a piece & hope to procure some in flower before long. It is exactly similar to the form so common at alt.
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altitude.
2500 - 3000 at Mt Field East.
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There is one thing that strikes me as in its favor to be considered specifically distinct & that is that although excessively common on the Mt. Wellington range & on Mt Field at about 2000 to 3000 ft. the alpine E. vernicosa does not occur on either mountain. I enclose with it a flowering specimen of a carex. Am I correct in taking it for
Carex canescens

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, Linn.?
I am delivering a course of lectures on Botany to the University & intend to devote out
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it?
to the subject of Classification. Shall I be correct in treating our present system as adopted in your Key
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B88.11.02.
as wholly and originally yours? I wish to treat the matter as you would wish it to be treated.
Yours Faithfully,
L. Rodway.