5/1/78.1
Can seeds of the Tussock Grass of the Falkland Islands, dear Sir Joseph, be obtained from the Shetland Group.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
MS annotation by Hooker: 'Written to [Ldy] Matheson March 19/78 | And.' See J. Hooker to M, March 1878.
This letter is written to the right of the central margin on the back of the folio, at the end of the text of a letter from W. H. Bacchus to J. G. Luehmann, 7 November 1877, transcribed below.
The front of the folio is annotated at top left in an unknown hand Sent | Oct 29/69.
Mr J G Luehman (sic)
Dear Sir
Yours of the 29th Ult received. I should like to get some more of the [perennial] Wheat grass as I think a good deal of it. Is not a [grain] (judging from the way it comes up) but a cereal grass which makes it more interesting My grass seed[s] saved are sown on my land in Autumn drilled together and I do not keep them. I send in separate parcel packets of a few which are left.
The Baron (when do you expect he will return) promised to write to the Falkland Islands for seeds of Tussock grass Dactylis caespitosa. I should like very much to procure some. Some years ago you kindly gave me some seeds of Pringlea antiscorbutica none came up have you heard of any one having grown it - You seemed to be short of plants of Azolla rubra I can send plenty if you require any
I am always glad to [receive] seeds of new grass or fodder plants to sow for test purposes.
I remain yours truly
W H Bacchus
Peerewur 7 Nov /77
Please cite as “FVM-78-01-05,” 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