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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/85-08-15a