Hyde Park
Sydney
August 15th 1885
Baron Von. Mueller
Government Botanist,
Victoria
I take the liberty of writing to ask if you will be good enough to name the enclosed species of grasses, when named please return the numbers only —
No 1. Grows to five or more feet high is hard and Cane like, branching prolificly from the nodes.
No 2. Grows to three feet high near water, yields a fair amount of succulent herbage.
No 3. An annual succulent grass.
No 4. A grass that grows into large tussocks near swamps.
No 5. one of the spear grasses.
No 6. another spear grass.
I am
Baron Von Mueller
your obedient servant
Fred Turner
Superintendant
Hyde Park
Sydney
Please cite as “FVM-85-08-15a,” 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