[A small packet of seed of Zizania aquotica,2 or wild rice of North America, described as splendid fodder grass for swamps in Upper India. From Baron F. von Mueller.]
Zizania aquotica
Letter not found. For the text given here, see ‘Monthly Proceedings of the Society’, Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, 1879, p. xxiv. The text appears in the proceedings for the meeting of 21 August 1879, in a report of donations received. The item is dated to July 1879 as the latest likely date that the packet could have been sent, to be noticed at this meeting.
Typesetter’s error for Z. aquatica?
Please cite as “FVM-79-07-00c,” 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