Sale1
1st October 1873
My Dear Sir
I beg to enclose a plant which is becoming very prevalent in this District the stock avoid eating it and it destroys all other grasses especially English clovers &c I would be very much obliged to you by letting me have the botanical name of it also stating if it is a poisonous weed at your earliest convenience and oblige
Yours most truly
J McM Allan
Inspector of Stock
Baron von Muller
&c &c &c
Botanical Gardens
Melbourne
Vic.
Please cite as “FVM-73-10-01,” 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