[COAPIM GRASS.
The Secretary reported that he had received from Baron F. von Müller a root of the coapim grass which was said to be immensely superior as a fodder plant to the grass which had long been wrongly named here as Panicum spectabile (or Phillips grass, or Johnson grass). The Baron had identified our so-called Johnson or Phillips grass as sorghum halepense (aleppo grass), and the true Panicum spectabile had not, so far as the Secretary was aware, previously been introduced here.]1
Panicum spectabile
Sorghum halepense
In another report of the meeting, South Australian register, 8 September 1890, p. 7, Molineux is reported as saying that the wrongly named grass was that which was 'cultivated at the Sewage Farm and elsewhere'.
Letter not found. The text given here is from a report of the meeting of the South Australian Bureau of Agriculture on 8 September 1890, in Adelaide observer, 13 September 1890. p. 10. Molineux was Secretary of the Bureau.
Please cite as “FVM-90-09-00f,” 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