[Of the two plants sent, the one with the white flower headlets Pimelea humilio,1 it is quite possible, Baron von Mueller states, may do mischief to pasture animals, because all Pimelias are pervaded by an arid2 principle, the same which renders the allied British Daphne Mezereum poisonous. This blistering principle is more or less developed in all the species, and it would be advisable therefore to destroy the Pimeleas wherever found. The other plant is the Bartsia Catifolia,3 brought here from the countries of the Mediterranean Sea. No records are extant of this plant being deleterious, nor it is likely to judge from its natural affinities that it should prove hurtful.]
Bartsia Catifolia
Daphne Mezereum
Pimelea humilio
Typesetter's error for Pimelia humilis?
Typesetter's error for acrid?
Typesetter's error for Bartsia latifolia?
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'answers to correspondents. specimen plants', an answer to 'Hayseed, Cornella', Leader (Melbourne), 28 October 1893, p'. 5. Assuming that the weekly newspaper would publish M's response in the next available issue, it is dated 23 October 1893 as the earliest likely date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-93-10-23b,” 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