Gastrolobium grandiflorum. — This year large flocks have started for the Flinders,1 and on the road out have had frightful losses from this poisonous Gastrolobe. It is most destructive, and for a death dealer I do not think it has been surpassed. It is fatal to cattle as well as sheep. Some drop as soon as they eat it; others dash madly into the bush and are seen no more; but most of them show no symptoms of it till the morning after they have eaten of it, when they drop in hundreds.
F. M., Melbourne.
Gastrolobium grandiflorum
Flinders River, Qld. See also M to the Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette, 25 July 1864 (in this edition as 64-07-25c).
Letter not found. For the text given here, see 'Foreign Correspondence', Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette, 25 February 1865, p. 174 (B65.02.05). It is dated to January as the latest likely date for it to have been sent to be published in this issue. See also M to J. Lindley, 21 January 1865 (in this edition as 65-01-21a).
Please cite as “FVM-65-01-00a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on