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From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Ballarat Star   16 Mar 1893

[We have received from Baron von Mueller a sample of panicum spectabile (coapim grass) from South Africa, for planting in a public reserve.1 The grass is now at our office, and may be obtained by Mr Longley,2 or authorised representative, any time before 2 p.m. to-day.]

Panicum spectabile

1

For other distribution of the grass at this time, see M to Bairnsdale advertiser and Tambo and Omeo chronicle, 16 March 1893, and notes thereto.

2

George Longley, curator of the Ballarat Botanic Gardens.

3

Letter not found. The text given here is from Ballarat star, 18 March 1893, p. [2], col. g. It is dated to 16 March on the assumption that the plants had just been received when the paper was being edited and would have been sent from Melbourne on the day before the newspaper was prepared for the press.

Please cite as “FVM-93-03-16a,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/93-03-16a