[Baron Von Mueller has forwarded to this office a specimen of Coapim grass (Panicum Spectabile) which grows most luxuriantly in South Africa, and is especially valuable for public reserves. We should think it is also a grand fodder plant and likely to flourish during droughts when less robust plants have been destroyed.]1
Panicum Spectabile
Other newspapers received root stock or specimens at this time; see M to Bairnsdale advertiser and Tambo and Omeo chronicle, 16 March 1893, and notes thereto.
Letter not found. The text given here is from Hamilton spectator, 23 March 1893, p. [3], col. a. It is dated to 20 March by comparison with other specimens sent at this time, meaning it would have arrived on the day the previous issue was published.
Please cite as “FVM-93-03-20i,” 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